SouthernCalifornia’s

PremierePirate

Jam Band

Music fit for a Party - A Boarding Party!

760-820-1222 - www.therebepirates.net

There Be Pirates!

“Pirate-Approved!!!These lads and lasses are

well steeped in the traditional shanties, Celtic music, and

tavern songs, but they certainly don’t stick with the traditional renditions. They

chew them up, and spit them back up again in forms new and delicious, full of energy and new life. They renovate shanties and old songs into blues, rock, gypsy music, belly dance rhythms, and even conga dance music.

At a recent St. Patrick’s Day Melee we attended they got a roomful of pirates to dance,

sing, shout, and bounce along all night. A true musical

adventure.”THREE SKULLS UP!!!

– Jamaica RoseNo Quarter Given magazine

What could be more fun than aBuccaneer Ball, a Pyrate Party, or a

piratical-themed event?

If’n ye answered, “Why, nothing, of course,” then

ye’ll be spared from experiencing firsthand

some of arrgghh more quaint customs - fer now,

anyway.....

There Be Pirates! be the premiere pirate jam band ta sail these waters! Arrrgghhh group takes traditional sea music, drinking songs,

and pirate ditties, mixes ‘em with some original piratical compositions, n’ serve ‘em up hot, fun,

and danceable fer yer crew!We can also provide full shows, including fire

dancers, belly dancers, re-enactors & even pirate bling & decor fer yer guests.

We be perfect fer yer organization’s special event, concerts, festivals, fundraisers, romantic

weddings, and parties.So, be bookin’ yer special pirate party soon,

before There Be Pirates! sails off once again ta cruize English waters this next summer. And don't forget to pirate a copy of the band’s CDs -

Drink & the Devil, and Pirates in the Desert!Watch fer more There Be Pirates! CDs

this coming year!

Have a Swashbuckling Grand Time!

“We danced the night away...”

There Be Pirates! Is a 7-piece (more or less), acoustically-based band that specializes in taking songs of the sea (many 150 years old or so), traditional Irish songs, pirate ditties, originals & more, and performing them in an entertaining, accessible, and often danceable, format. The crew are all accomplished musicians in their own right. They are led by Shanghai Brown, whose previous musical incarnations have been as a traditional shantyman in the Puget Sound area, as well as a singer and drummer in rock bands. There Be Pirates! got its start in early 2006, with its first gig on St. Paddy’s Day that year. Since then, the band has performed at music festivals, concerts, benefits, pyrate pool parties, museums, pubs, and more. There Be Pirates! toured England in the summers of 2009 and 2010, performing at On the Waterfront (50,000, Liverpool), Sea Fest (headlining both years, Scarborough), Danby Castle, Merseyside Maritime Museum, and more. The band packed the Queen Mary to capacity for the launch party of Pyrate Daze in 2009, and headlined the Shoreline Village Pirate Fest in Long Beach, California, and Southern California's largest International Talk Like a Pirate Day celebration in San Pedro, California (2011). There Be Pirates! has been featured on HDnet TV’s national series, “Deadline,” with KatieDaryll (vh1 & mtv hostette). They have performed repeatedly for the Port Royal Privateers, a famed re-enactment organization. The Privateers bring the band homemade rum & have declared them “best pirate band.” There Be Pirates!’ two CDs have received critical acclaim, & sell internationally. The band has been a guest on both BBC radio, & Music World Radio. Shanghai Brown has lectured on piratical history at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum.

About There Be Pirates!

In addition to completing work on their albums,

Drink & the Devil, and Pirates in the Desert, There Be Pirates! has possible performances from Ireland to Las Vegas being negotiated at present. The band’s rendition of Derelict (the song the pirates sing in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island - you know, “Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum…”), is featured on Lafitte’s Return Vol II, a benefit album raising funds for musical instruments for New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina.“...another wondrous evening of

music and song. We so much enjoy you and your band members and

all yourtalents to keep our spirits high and

keep us dancing.”

“T’was a grand affair...”

For more information on There Be

Pirates!, or to book There Be Pirates!

For your special event, please e-mail

therebepiratesmail@yahoo.com, or

call 760-820-1222. We’ll be glad to work

with you to create a fun, appropriate

event for your venue, whether it’s a

buccaneers ball, pyrate party, beach

bash, music or maritime festival, St.

Patrick’s Day or International Talk Like

a Pirate Day event, yacht club party,

school performance, concert, pub night,

shanty sing, artist in residence, etc. The

band’s website, www.therebepirates.net

offers more information and links to

CDBaby, My Space, Facebook, as well as

additional information.

Playing all the hits - of the 17th Century!

There Be Pirates!

A Selection of U.S. Performances

The River (shopping center), Rancho Mirage, CAWater Canyon Coffee Co., Yucca Valley, CA

The 29 Palms Inn, 29 Palms, CAArt Queen, Joshua Tree, CA

Desert Hot Springs Spa Hotel, Desert Hot Springs, CAChuckwalla Fest, Joshua Tree Retreat Center, Joshua Tree, CA

Chuckwalla Fest, Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, Pioneertown, CA(also backing Juke Logan as The Blues Pirates)

Pirates N’ Plunder, Whittier, CA(Featured on HDNet TV)

Pyrate Daze Festival, The Queen Mary, Long Beach, CAThe Whale & Ale English Pub, San Pedro, CA

(Including Southern California’s largest International Talk Like a Pirate Day party)Shoreline Village Pirate Festival, Long Beach, CA

Port Royal Privateeers Private Parties, Joshua Tree, CAThe Phoenix Project West Buccaneers Ball, Yucca Valley, CA

Hi-Desert Nature Museum, Yucca Valley, CA(HDNM also featured a lecture by Shanghai Brown on piratical history)

Mountains Community Hospital Foundation Pirate’s BountyLe Grand Picnic benefit, Lake Arrowhead, CA

Various classroom performances

A Selection of U.K. Performances

Danby Castle (Pirates in the Desert CD Release Party), DanbyOn the Waterfront festival, Albert Dock, Liverpool

Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool10th Anniversary SeaFest, Scarborough (headlining, multiple venues)11th Anniversary SeaFest, Scarborough (headlining, multiple venues)

Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-HoleThe Captain Cook, Staithes

The Queen Catherine, Osmotherley

Media CoverageHDNet TV, U.S.Z-107 FM Local Music Spotlight, Joshua Tree, CAKJET FM Local Music Radio, Joshua Tree, CANo Quarter Given Pirate Magazine, InternationalBilgemunky Pirate Radio, International (Internet)Trossen Los, The Netherlands (FM)BBC, UK (various)World Music Radio, UK/International (Internet)Desert Valley Star, Desert Hot Springs, CAHi-Desert Star, Yucca Valley, CAThe Desert Trail, 29 Palms, CAThe Sun Runner Magazine, California desert regionVarious Liverpool, Scarborough, and California newspapers, blogs, etc.