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Plantersville, TX     October 14 - 15, 2006

The Bilge Pumps made their first visit as a featured guest performer to the largest Renaissance Festival in the country. It was Pirate's Adventure weekend at the festival and we made sure to convert the royalty to the dark side and brought out everyone's inner buccaneer with a steady dose of Bilge Pumps goofiness and music. The rain hit on Sunday and kept the usually huge crowds down, but our loyal fans, both old and new, would not be deterred from seeing the show.

How do you fit 6 pirates on a 3-man stage? Easy, you just knock 3 of 'em off the stage.

John Crow tries to convince the rest of the gang that he is the pirate king and it is, it is a glorious thing.

It looks like Phil and Harvey have been at sea waaaay too long and get a bit touchy-feely.

The Bilge Pumps are really just on stage to kill time before Tartanic begins their show.

John Crow stops Galleon from going into another obscure Firefly joke.

Since it we were guest performers/auditioners, we figured we'd sing one of our best songs, "The Dark Lady".

Phil offers a drink the the crowd to help them ease the pain of watching the show.

Now that the audience is all enebriated, Fanny and Lyssa pounce on them to sell CD's.

Nature itself rebels against the Bilge Pumps as the vines close in on Maroon.

Galleon eats a hearty bowl of pirate stew to keep his strength up for a long night with Harvey.

Then Galleon abruptly realizes what Harvey has planned and goes on a hunger strike.

Harvey prepares to pounce on the audience. He gets a little more senile with every show.

The Queen of England drops by to take in the show, but she might have regretted her decision.

Video

The Black Ball Line
Doing all sorts of naughty things to dead guys
Uploaded: Oct 22 2006     384 X 240    02:16 min.    19.0 MB
Fire Maringo
Nothing impresses a festival owner like a monotonous pirate dirge
Uploaded: Oct 22 2006     384 X 240    01:53 min.    15.9 MB


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or on to more pictures of The Bilge Pumps jaunts from 2006!!

| Scarlet's Mid-Winter Fest | Mardi Gras Galveston | Griff's St. Patrick's Day Festival | OU Medieval Fair |
| Great Plains Ren Fest | Oklahoma Renaissance Faire | Lawton Renaissance Festival | Movie Watching Party |
| First Tee Pub Pirate Party | Tipperary Inn | Kansas City Renaissance Festival | O'Malley's Pub |
| Talk Like a Pirate Day Party | Houston Hot Sauce Festival | Texas Renaissance Festival | Louisiana Renaissance Festival |
| Dickens on the Strand | Scarlet's Renaissance Festival Shoppe |


For booking information contact Craig Lutke at:
214-415-9563 or by e-mail at

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