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.
Mark yer logbooks – Friday, 24 March 2017 at about 9pm – Meet The Crew at Pirates Alley Café & Olde Absinthe House! For 9 years our official meeting spot for NOLA Pyrate Week! Our good mates & genial Landlords, Thais Solano & Tony Seville, once again host our gathering in their cosy corner o’…
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…
Our mate Mikko over at Go NOLA is a brave lad…nothing makes him veer from his goal o’ reporting on history & culture in New Orleans! He sat down for a chat with The Decatur Dragon about NOLA Pyrate Week, the Louisiana Pyrate Wench Pageant, Pyrate Fashion Show and saving the wetlands! Also in this…
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…
Never let it be said that Pyrates don’t appreciate culture – fact is, we brought much of it here to begin with! The Folk Art Zone & Blues Museum in Old Algiers (operated by local folk artist Charles Gillam) will be open and offering tours on Family Pyrate Day from Noon – 3pm. It’s about…
The ‘Who Dat’ puppies rescued by Miz Mardi Claw & our new mates “Dogs Of The 9th Ward”. The shepherd-mixes were rescued last weekend, just hours before the Saints beat the Cardinals, and for the first time in their 3-week-old lives they were warm and safe. They had been abandoned when their owners moved and…
