The Bilge Pumps will be heading way, way away from the ocean this summmer, all the way to North Dakota!

We'll be making our first appearance at the Red River Valley Renaissance Faire this year, escaping the Texas heat and easing into a cooler climate.

Sure, we'll be thousands of miles away from the ocean and sure, we'll all have the land sweats because of it, but we plan in bringing in a dose of sea air to West Fargo, even if way have to spray everyone.

Because of other commitments, we can only be there for the first weekend of the faire, but we promise to give everyone something to talk about... for better or worse.

The Bilge Pumps will be returning to that most local of faire grounds in 2026 as we commute just down the river a bit to the Scarborough's Hollow Festival!

We'll be keeping it spookily funny in this Fall-themed event taking place on Saturdays only from Sept 26-Oct 31.

We'll be performing only the first four Saturdays of the festival and we fully expect a ruckus from those pirate and Halloween loving people in D/FW!

Don't forget to smuggle your rum in your pumpkins!

The Bilge Pumps will be returning to the land of the red earth for our fifth appearance at the Oklahoma Renaissance & Scottish Festival.

The festival takes place at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City. Specifically, it will be on the NE corner of the grounds on the corner of May Ave and 10th St.

There'll be more entertainment than you can shake your rigging at, including a large dash of piracy.

The OKC Highland Games (an International Highland Games Federation sanctioned event) will also take place at the festival.

Come join us in starting the holiday season with a bang.

After a five year absence from the festival, the Bilge Pumps will heed that call all the way down hwy 49 into cajun country for year number 21 at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival.

We'll be there for only one weekend of the festival, but it will be PIRATES WEEKEND!

We will likely up up being sacrificial lambs to the snakes on the new demonstration stage for the snakes. Hey, if it worked for Conan the Barbarian, it will work for us, too.

Check back in with this page and we'll update it when the schedule is set.

We look forward to reconnecting with our Looisiana friends and fans.

We're back for the 53rd year of Dickens on the Strand, the festival that celebrates the world of Christmas under Queen Victoria with lots of unicycles, scrooges, bobbies, pirates, and strangely, a lot of horse poop. Those last two are in no way related.

We'll be rolling our land schooners back to the island for our 22nd appearance at the festival. We will be spreading the holiday joy to all, pirate style, with our oh-so-beautiful pirate Christmas carols combined with our usual dose of nautical nonsense guaranteed to put wind in your sails.