The Bilge Pumps - Friendly Ports

PIRATE SITES

The Bilge Pumps' Myspace - Our fan Luscious the pumpette created this cyber-home away from home for our fans to meet.

Beej's Pirate Image Archive - The name says it all... historical pirate images.

Bilgemunky - Any site with a name like that deserves to get sniffed out... and spanked!

Captain Cutlass' Pirate Page - This Brother of the Coast has more pirate stuff than you can shake your rigging at.

No Quarter Given - One of the best pirate sites... on the 'net or in print.

Pyracy.com - On online community for all the pirates in the cyber-seas. Drop by and steal some cyber-loot!

Pirates of the Spanish Main - Great links site. Never say links to an pirate. Makes us think of chains which makes us want to shoot.

Talk Like a Pirate Day - Every September 19th, you can celebrate the holiday for us pirates.

ACTS, SHOWS, AND GROUPS top

Bret Roberts - Entertainer - An entertaining soul with a heart made of coal.. or sole.. or something.

The Brothers Dimm - Three really filthy dudes that force you to laugh at their boobies. Not that it's bad or anything.

Ded Bob - Classic example of how to haunt people from the grave.

The Dragon Attack Stunt Show - Getting medieval on ourselves. See the Bilge Pumps in high-flying stunt action!

The Duelists - True masters of the dueling art. Of course, real artists would cut their ears off like Van Gogh.

Indigo Rose - Featuring members of the former Dolunay Rose, these guys have been friends of ours since the beginning.

The Ladies of the Salty Kiss - A pirate comedy crew with not a single bloke among 'em! Who wouldn't like that?

The Merfolk - These mermaids (and men) are our favorite flotilla of flippered fans.

The Musical Blades - Hard hitting pirate music, meaning that they swordfight and sing... sometimes at the same time.

The Scallywags - Our buccaneer buddies will show you why they're the scalliest scallywags what ever scalled a wag!

Smee and Blogg - These executioners'll have you laughing so hard, your head will fall off. That's good, right?

MUSIC ACTS top

Bedlam Bards - Hawk and Cedric will be sure to entertain, especially if you're drunk.

Big E and the Hurricane Iggy Band - Home of our own E the Bosun's new island music adventure!

The Corsairs - The other pirate singing group in Dallas/Ft. Worth.

The Counterfeit Bards - A quartet of musicians that plays so sweet and nice, it makes ya just wanna take potshots at 'em.

Craig of Farrington - Smooth and fun minstrel who earns the title of closest singer at a faire. Wrote the "3 Song"

Gypsy Soul - True, they're not a ren faire group, but they are one of Maroon's favorites, so here they are.

Heather Alexander - Legendary and very awesome Celtic singer-songwriter who wrote "March of Cambreadth".

Howl-o - Great sounding, frolicking, musical duo that puts fun back in the word "clap".

The Jolly Rogers - A hilarious group performing in the Midwest. One of the best pirate groups around.

The Limey Birds - These women sing pretty & look pretty, then they roll you in the hay and run off with your pay.

Schooner Fare - The brothers Romanoff are spreading the love of all things nautical to the world.

The Sea Dogs - A huge West coast pirate band... well, not huge individually... uh... I mean there's 15 of em, dammit!

Tullamore - Awesome 3 piece band. Fully stocked with 2 good lookin' women and a guy... who's pretty good lookin' too.

VENUES, FESTIVALS, & PUBS top

Chandler's Landing Marina - Home of our Talk Like a Pirate Day party. It's got boats and booze, whaddya want?

Dickens on the Strand - Victorian Christmas festival that's been accepting and banning piracy for over 30 years.

Kansas City Renaissance Festival - One of the nicer festivals in the country. Be prepared to walk up and down alot of hills.

Lawton Renaissance Festival - Nice lil' up-and-coming faire in Oklahoma.

Lochrann's Irish Pub - The newest Irish pub in the D/FW area and they're not tidy enough to keep the pirates away!

Louisiana Renaissance Festival - Bodices and gator tails, what better way to say Renaissance. A-yeeee!

Mardi Gras Galveston - Mardi Gras, the biggest party in Texas! We've been known to crash it.

O'Malley's Pub - An Irish pub in Weston, MO that's 60 ft underground in an old multi-level lagering cellar.

OU Medieval Fair - Very nice faire in Norman. Big on crafts. No admission charge! We likes.

Pirates in Paradise - Just the name makes ya wanna go, doesn't it?

Scarborough Faire - Renaissance faire in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. You've all been there.

Scarlet's Renaissance Festivals - New faires in OKC in the colds of winter... in the warms of indoors... and vice versa!

Texas Renaissance Festival - Size makes it big. No political correctness makes it great!

Tipperary Inn - Irish pub that's home of the best Guiness pour in Dallas/Ft. Worth... and we've looked.

MUSIC SITES top

Cantaria: The Bards - List of songs, lyrics, and MIDI's for artists represented by Chivalry.

LandzEdge - Internet radio that is the home of E the Bosun's Changes in Latitudes radio show! Mondays from 7-9 pm Central.

Modern Bard - Rapidly becoming the be-all and end-all of sites for listing renfaire musicians' music for sale.

Mudcat Discussion Forum - Detailed listing of traditional folk songs. Lyric search included.

Renaissance Festival Music.com - Home of the Ren Festival Podcast, giving you music from the faire performers.

Renradio - The coolest place on the 'net to check out the music of the ren faire artists.

Texas Gigs - Giving info and schedules on all the bands and venues in the Lone Star State.

NAUTICAL & SAILING top

San Diego Maritime Museum - Home of the tall ships Star of India, H.M.S. Surprise, Californian and more!

Tall Ship Rose - Now renamed to Surprise and featured in "Master and Commander". The largest wooden ship still sailing.
Check out Maroon the Shantyman's trip on the Rose here

Tall Ship U.S.S. Constitution - "Old Ironsides". The undefeated wooden ship of the US Navy.

Texas Seaport Museum - Home of the Tall Ship Elissa, an iron-sided barque based in Galveston, TX with the nicest crew around!

PIRATEY GOODS top

Celtic Chrystal - Good friend of ours that makes excellent hand-crafted jewelry. That's booty to the unpirate-y!

Dead Men Tell No Tales - Where you wanna be if you're looking for pirate literature and goodies.

Pirate Mod - A quite swashbuckling stash of pirate shirt with traditional and original jolly rogers on 'em.

The Pirate's Cove - Our friends at the Pirate's Cove are gonna hook you up, pirate-style... with a real hook!

Renboots.com - Want new boots so ya can look piratical? Here's a good place to spend yer loot

Renshirts.com - 'Cause, unless you wanna get arrested, there's no wearing renboots without a renshirt... and pants.

Sablewood Village - A community of old-world craftsmen making unique items for you.

SteelDrumMallets.com - Maroon the Shantyman's own store where he makes and sells steel pan mallets.

Stormwatch Jewelry - These guys have nice jewelry for sale. Since they're friends, though, we can't steal it, dammit!

Yarak Creative Enterprises - If yer a female pirate, they have some nifty jolly rogers for ya.

MISCELLANEOUS AND PERSONAL PAGES top

The Directorie of Renaissance Faires - The latest faire and performer compendium on the web. Ready to pillage.

Dossey's Diversions - Where to go to hire John Crow or Fannie as a Santa & Mrs. Claus or as DJ's.

The End of Destiny - The on-line fantasy novel Maroon's been writing. Too bad he can't read.

Hip Pocket Theatre - Nice little outdoor theatre that Harvey the Corpsman is president of.

Nearly Nature - Maroon's mom's site where you can find the nicest silk flower arrangements in cyberspace... and beyond!

Patrick McAlister.com - Need to wipe the sneeze off your monitor? Then go visit Squeegy the Cabin Boy's web site!

Woody's Smokehouse - By far the best meat jerkey on the planet. The Bilge Pumps proudly consider themselves addicts.

LINK IMAGES top

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