Category: Pirate folk

Pirates Creed is a dynamic duo composed of two best friends, known as the Navigator and the Quartermaster. They’re the masterminds behind the band’s unique sound, blending “grog rock” and “Sea Grass” music with a pirate twist. These two musicians have a long history of performing together, having met while playing in another pirate band at the Ohio Renaissance Festival. They decided to join forces and create Pirates Creed.

The Cornish duo Topgallant Jack are singers of shanties, sea songs and Cornish songs. Their aim is to entertain by singing and keeping alive songs from the past and by writing and performing new material too. They arrange some of the traditional tunes in a slightly different way, whilst retaining the original flavour and meaning of the song.

The Skullduggers are a high energy pirate band from Anaheim, USA. They entertain audiences with their unique arrangements of traditional sea shanties, forebitters and maritime classics. This quintet perform their lively music with traditional folk instruments: guitar, mandolin, fiddle, accordion, and tabor.

The Seadogs are a group of performers (currently 16 in number) who perform nautical music and songs, with a healthy injection of comedy and theatrics. The musicians play a wide range of instruments, including banjo, flute, whistles, cello, guitar, and accordion, along with an entire group of talented singers who perform a wide range of seafaring music from old world shanties & work songs done in the traditional style, to more upbeat interpretations of classic sea-songs, to modern & original seafaring music.

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.