We're back for the 51st year of Dickens on the Strand, the festival that celebrates the world of Christmas under Queen Victoria with lots of unicycles, scrooges, bobbies, and street urchins... and pirates... because we wouldn't have it any other way.

We'll be rolling our land schooners back to the island to spread 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.

As usual, we'll be traveling all around the festival putting on shows on multiple stages, so check our schedule here and on the festival programs to see where and when we'll be.

The Friday night Fezziwig party will be happening again this year and we'll be there to help the Queen kick off her slippers and get her pirate on!

Admission is free to this Friday night event and it will run from 5:00 to 9:00 with us Bilge Pumps wrapping up the evening starting our set around 8:00.

The Bilge Pumps will be landing our super-dee-duper land yacht once again in Grand Prairie for our traditional appearance at the Grand Prairie Farmers Market in December to help cement our title as the Official Band of Pirates for the City.

While we're there, we'll spread the love of pirate Christmas carols to the locals and shop diligently for some citrus to stave off the scurvy at sea.