2008 ENTERTAINMENT

Website: www.westcoastmutineers.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/WestCoastMutineers




Rusty Cutlass is a band of full-time professional performers from the Orlando area. When they invade the stage you can expect lots of entertainment, close harmony, and rockin' good times. They perform authentic Sea Shanties, Pirate songs, Traditional Irish tunes, Tavern songs, Contemporary Nautical favorites and more. They also play traditional instruments, including concertina, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and upright double bass. Rusty Cutlass is frequently found at Walt Disney World performing at many special events and conventions. More recently, they were a featured band at the international PyrateCon 08. With decades of experience in Vocal and Instrumental Stage and Street Entertainment, you're sure to enjoy Rusty Cutlass!
Website: www.rustycutlass.net



A pirate crew focused on recruiting the young ruffians to being pirates.  Arrr Ink finds them, administers the pirate pledge and awards them with a signing bonus. Arrr Ink is based in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
Website: www.arrrink.com




Bring yer vocal chords n' Capt. Lightnin' Jack will bring tha shanties! Having hosted many a sea shanty sing-out, he'll have even lubbers swaggerin' n' singin' deep sea shanties as if they were roundin' "The Horn"!  
Website: www.reverbnation.com/captlightninjack




From the bowels of Dumb Prop Building 101 come THE PIRATES OF THE ANNE GARE!!  The deadliest stage show to sink in all seven seas and soon at a pirate festival near you.  With ships captain Oarville, First Mate Groggy and right-handed right hand man Bildgewater they will astonish and amaze you as they present the 15th or 16th wonder of the world.
Website: www.myspace.com/TravelersHold/



Dan Diaz is an accomplished juggler and balance artist who has performed all over the Bay area for many years. We think you'll agree he's a real character. He always has with him plenty of props and more mystery than most people know what to do with.
Website: www.geocities.com/mrcaneproductions



The Drum Stretchers facilitate Drum Circles across the Tampa Bay area. They are knowledgeable in re-heading hand drums and are able to provide new high quality, low-stretch rope to ensure the best sounds from your hand drum. They are tremendously talented in custom millwork, custom welding, and custom wood refinishing to restore the best appearance and performance of your drum. They are also skilled in restoring antique and unique sized and shaped percussion items.  They will be drumming at the Bell Tower throughout the weekend!
Website: www.drumstretchers.com




Since the late 1990’s For Love or Money have brought their signature blend of charmingly simple instrumental acoustic folk music and lively performance to audiences throughout the state of Florida winning fans and friends along the way with their eclectic mix of English Morris dances, traditional English, Irish and Scottish folk tunes, as well as many a rollicking Russian song or two mixed in with a few Gypsy tunes and boisterous seafarin’ songs for good measure.
Website: www.flom-music.com




The Holland Days (the sauciest crew around) is mostly based in Bradenton, FL. The small crew was most recently seen at the Lee Kiwanis Medieval Fair and the Ft. Myers Beach Pirate Festival. They provide musical entertainment and a stage show that is both fun and family friendly! The crew consists of Captain Gracie Fitzhoward, First Mate Henry Blackthorn, Ship's Surgeon Willum Griffin, Navigator Anuleena, Boatswain Maggie Lashley, Ship's Cook Francois Bechamel, Master Gunner Buhni Macarhib, and Powder Monkey Jesse Taggart. 
Website: www.geocities.com/hollandddays/




The a capella quartet Marooned combines 50 years of faire experience with a wide variety of backgrounds. Marooned takes Sea Shanties and Irish drinking music and adds a few original numbers to put on a lively and energetic show. From silly, to the bawdy ... and often back again.
Website: www.marooned-lv.com




Michael Noles theatrical career spans almost 26 years. He has worked for both Disney and Universal in many capacities, as art director and senior show designer, picking up theatre “gigs” from time to time. A classically trained sculptor, Michael has a studio in the Orlando area where he enjoys bronze sculpture and carving stone along with drawing his Piratical limited addition prints. His desire for “street performing” remains, and He continues to seek out new venues that will be challenging and rewarding. The Michael Noles Studio, is proud to offer the “High Seas” collection of six, signed limited addition prints at this years festival. He will be available to personally sign your purchased print during festival hours! Be sure to leave your card or take one of ours as Michael is preparing to release the next six prints of his series in the FALL of 2007!





Website: www.piratesdinneradventure.com




The Pyrates of the Coast are a roving entertainment troupe of pirates and wenches that perform throughout the United States and abroad. These tried and true performers have been entertaining for more than 100 combined years, pleasing crowds with their music, humor, antics, jokes and free pirate treasures.
Website: www.piratesofthecoast.com




Terry and The Pirates formed in 2004, by four experienced musicians who wanted to provide a higher quality of entertainment. With more than 100 years of collective music experience, they have become one of the hottest Classic Rock and Blues bands in the Tampa Bay area. The band draws from a cover song list of more than 250 tunes, and will adapt to any crowd.
Website: www.terryspirates.com




Terry Lynn (aka: Rusty Nell Riley) began studying performance at an early age and is currently working as a performing songwriter. She and her husband, Cannibal Chrispy,are pirates hailing from Ft. Meyers, FL, and enjoy entertaining both children and adults. Rusty Nell has studied the history and origin of many bawdy songs, and loves to share that with the audience. Her pirate repertoire includes thirty plus sea songs, children’s ballads and pub songs. Their origins from the 1800's are songs of love, loss and longing; some comical and some dramatic.
Website: www.terrylynnsongs.com




These unique individuals provide floggings to the most worthy, and anyone else who may encompass the courage to be flogged! Providing an interactive diversion, as well as handmade leather goods, they will be drumming throughout the weekend at the Bell Tower.




Troupe Zahara is a professional bellydance ensemble based in Plant City, Florida.  From its start twenty years ago, Troupe Zahara has performed across the state, exhibiting opulent bellydance vignettes that blend culture, creativity, bellydance, and influences from many contemporary and ethnic dance forms... combining them all to create a constantly-evolving, captivating fusion of rhythm and melody, gesture and motion.