Shipwreck Rats is a pirate speed folk band based in Berlin founded in the mid-2000s. They play fast and energetic traditional music from Scotland, Ireland, North America and all the other places they’ve plundered in their time. Guitar, mandolin, harmonica, bass, and fiddle are among the instruments they play their music with. All those based in Germany the band consists of a multinational line-up consisting of members from the USA, Sweden, and Scotland.
Category: Pirate bands
Pyrates!
Pyrates! are a sea shanty folk rock band who will take you on a musical excursion across the oceans themselves as they breathe new life back into sea shanties, traditional songs, old folk favourites and ballads whose origins have been forgotten and lost in time.
This band from the Netherlands (although their guitarist, Captain Gallows, is originally from the UK) produce their vibrant pirate sounds with using the guitar, bass, melodeon, Fiddle, and drums.
Pirates for Sail
This pirate band from Baltimore, USA plays a mix of spirit-rousing sea shanties, Irish drinking tunes, and maritime ballads. Pirates for Sail (also known to their fans as the Crew of the Drunken Ferret and the Drunken Ferret T’Barnacle Choir) has been navigating the waterways and watering holes of Maryland since 2005.
Stromfrun
Another great Swedish pirate folk band which has been playing both their own songs and traditional ones for over ten years. With lyrics both in English and Swedish, their songs tell about the life of a pirate and the struggle against injustice and power. Instruments played include the bouzoki, guitar, bass, violin, hurdy gurdy, banjo, mandolin, nyckelharpa, and accordion.
Pat Razket
With a merge of Irish and Nordic folk, sea shanties, Balkan music, this intriguing Swedish pirate folk band recounts exciting tales from the sea, pirate legends, and the pleasures in life.