Category: Pirate folk rock

Formed in 2008, The Dread Crew of Oddwood hails from Southern California. Armed exclusively with acoustic instruments, these pirates infuse the raw energy of heavy metal with Celtic and European folk music to tell tales of comrades lost, bloody sieges, drunken debauchery, and all manner of villainous misadventures. The Dread Crew of Oddwood have aptly dubbed this unique style “Heavy Mahogany

Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers are a wild band of Nashville musicians who dress like pirates and play a rollicking mix of piratical sing-alongs, rousing historical rave-ups, afro-cuban tinged ballads, Cajun sea shanties, and bluesy Irish jigs, transforming big festivals, performing arts centers, and urban nightclubs into bustling seaside taverns at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Sadly Tom Mason passed away in August 2024.

This German-language pirate folk band from Munich produce a wild mix of folk-rock, ska, and Balkan music. The eight band members play a variety of instruments including the flute, saxophone, rauschpfeife, and accordion.

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. Although based in Germany the band consists of a multinational line-up consisting of members from the USA, Sweden, and Scotland.

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.