Aiming For 2020

ByJ.S. 2019-12-312019-12-31

Blasting into a new year – may it bring good fortune, good health, good mates & good rum – and a few adventures along the way!

Yo, ho, haul together, hoist the colours high!

All Hands On Deck!

Avast, mates! NOLA Pyrate Week starts tonight! Join us at Pirates Alley Café 7pm as we launch our 4th annual gathering – celebrating the history & culture o’ New Orleans and Louisiana while raising awareness and funds for wetlands preservation & restoration. Tonight our procession moves from Pirates Alley to Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop (families/children welcome…

11th Annual Gathering o’ Pyrates

Aye…it’s been 11 years (officially) o’ NOLA Pyrate Week that we’ve been gathering the crew in New Orleans and traveling around Louisiana as “Benevolent Pyrates”. Ye know what they say, “Time flies when yer having RUM!” We continue to be a loose gathering o’ like minded individuals who meet on this occasion to pass a…

Down De Bayou

This year we were fortunate to have more than one visit with our mates down de Bayou – sharing in their warmth & hospitality as well as their struggles and concerns. The Bayous o’ South Louisiana are the lifeblood o’ the state and their history, ecosystem and culture have an impact across North America. People…

Help Save The New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple

Avast mates – time to trim the sails and haul together! Our beloved mate, Maman Miriam Chamani, Priestess o’ The New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple for these past two and a half decades, has suffered a disaster by fire. In the early hours o’ Monday morning (1 Feb, 2016), what appears to be an electrical…

Mardi Gras World (Tour)

We are pleased to announce that the fine folks at Blaine Kern’s “Mardi Gras World” have agreed to give a discounted tour to NOLA Pyrate Week participants! This is a unique opportunity to see the awesome new warehouse that houses the creations of one of New Orleans most famous families. Since 1947, Blaine Kern Studios…

Aye, Here’s The Rum!

Everyone expects Pyrates to have Rum…especially Pyrates! This is one part o’ the “Pyrate Mythos” that is not only fact, but a keynote in the history o’ both Pyrates and the Rum trade! As spirits, extracted from molasses, could not well be ranked under the name Whiskey, Brandy, or Arrack, it would be called Rum,…

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