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.
This website serves two purposes. Firstly, it presents the historical background to the Pyrate Chronicles book series. Secondly, it provides detailed information on the Golden Age of Piracy in general. The Pyrate Chronicles book series tells the story of a group of pirates who find themselves on a desperate journey to return to familiar lands after inadvertently sailing into a mysterious mist. It is pirate fanstasy set to a historical background. This website is a work in progress, constantly being added to.
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.
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.
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.
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.