We are pleased to present, The Whiskey Bay Rovers – musical lads sailin’ in from Lafayette, Louisiana – to entertain ye with sea chanteys, pub tunes and other amusements!
The lads will be performing acoustic sets throughout the weekend at the Merchants Market.
What’s a Pyrate’s favourite beverage? RUM, obviously…but there be many a time when even Rum won’t do – and for those times, there’s COFFEE! Many similarities between the two, ye know – naturally darker colour, must come from the best ingredients, takes a skilled hand to make a great batch, stronger the longer it sits,…
It’s been quite a number o’ years since we first met Yegor Romantsov and the talented members o’ Debauche; and we’ve all become great mates. Debauche has gone from playing on the streets o’ New Orleans to holding down the stage with some o’ the biggest names in the music business all over North America…even ol’…
Elegant and excellent was that Pyrate’s answer to the great Macedonian Alexander, who had taken him; the King asking him how he durst molest the seas so, he replied with a free spirit: “How darest thou molest the whole earth? But because I do it only with a little ship, I am called Brigand: thou…
As of this writing (Nov. 2010)…five years ago, a disaster struck New Orleans. The media said it was a natural disaster primarily affecting poor black people. On both counts, the media was wrong. In his feature–length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that…
Aye, ye read right…our mates at NCIS: New Orleans are looking for a few Pyrates – to be shot (on camera) for an upcoming episode! Pull out yer finest (?) attire, fill in the form below, upload ONE good photo and we’ll forward it directly to the folks in charge! We are currently accepting submissions…
Aye, mates…in 2018 it’ll be 300 years that New Orleans has been on the map – and 10 years since the official start o’ NOLA Pyrate Week! Of course, we have many folks in tricorn hats (and perhaps a couple in bicorns) to thank for the fabulous city we love to call home – most…
