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Bogg and Salty free gig at downtown Portland, Oregon, Main Library! Pegleg Tango Family Record Release Central Library in downtown Portland will once again host tot moshing and All-ages jigging on Saturday April 2, with free performances at both 11 AM and 2 PM. Pirates in the Pearl! Spring Scottish Pirate Party & Auction Saturday, April 16th 6:00 to 10:00 PM Venue: The Ecotrust Building * 721 NW Ninth Ave, Portland, OR (plenty of parking on site!) Cost: $60 per person; $100 per couple Information and/or reservations: 503-224-7411 http://www.portlandrevels.org FESTIVAL de PIRATAS IV- June 25, 2005 The annual celebration of music and piracy (for buccaneers 21 and older) also represents the official 21-and-older record release for the band's new CD 'Pegleg Tango.' The sixth festival moves to Sabala's Mt. Tabor in SE Portland, and also moves back to its old slot in late June (Festival's IV and V occured in August). More details to come. Check here for the updates: Future Sailings

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BTW: Bring some of that fine Aztec Gold with ye! You'll find some ready customers among our crew I'd guess! And let's not ferget to compare gold teeth!

Aye!!!! Well met Harbor Master !!!! B.O.O.M. (Brotherhood of Oceanic Mercenaries) and the PDX Pirates will be on that sail as well and then we be going to a party at "Paint The Town Red" a local Art Studio! And you're invited! Hope ye will be joining us! Somethings in the wind as well fer Saturday night at 'Ole Bob's Coffee Net! Shhh... don't tell the townsfolk! 4/27 See further down in this topic for updates for updates !

Handmade felted and treated hats by one of our Orygun Mates, MacKay!! Captain Jack's Pirate Hats Look for us in the gallery section cavorting on the Interceptor!

Ahhhh Patrick ye be a luuverly fella, here's tea, sympathy and kitty kat kisses to you... Hope yer feelin' better soon.

Ahhhh Patrick ye be a luuverly fella, here's kitty kat kisses to you... Hope yer feelin' better soon.

Greetings Capt. Kora: no reason fer a pyrate to be to be lonely in OryGun! Here be a few listings from the calendar of the PDX Pirates Come meet us at the Lucky Lab West (SW Portland) on March 21st , 6-9 pm! Heather Alexander is playin' and we're always plottin' the next adventure. FAIRE: 4-8&9&10-2005 3M Privateer's Revel three days O' piracy 101, west of pdx , w/food & showers no less!! http://www.currentmiddleages.org/events/pi...irateparty.html FAIRE: 5-28-2004 The Gathering VI 2005 New Location West of Portland "Hornings Hidout",Event for PIRATES who dont care much for Egils http://www.digital-nuance.com/castillianfl...leet/gathering/ FAIRE: 7-2-2004 Pirate War 2004 http://www.geocities.com/clandrakkar/piratewar.html FAIRE: 7-21-2005 Seadog Nights & Gypsy Carnival 5 Star, 5 day pirate event NW of Eugene, Or http://seadognights.com FAIRE: 8-5&6&7-2005 The Blackthorne Revel Held at McIver St. Park outside of Estacada ~ Dance with the Gypsies. Get some Booty with the Pirates. http://www.TheBlackthorneRevel.com

Heather Alexander @ Lucky Lab West Monday March 21, 2005 Come for dinner 6:00 pm Music: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Location: Lucky Labrador Public House WEST 7675 SW Capitol Hwy (across from Multnomah Arts Center) Portland, Oregon 97219 COMMENTS: No cover, tips accepted. Family friendly, music is upstairs. Folk/celtic storytellin', fine fiddling and pirate songs. Not all are in garb, but a good time fer face to face plot'n by thunder!! Suggest coming early to order pizza/salads so as not to miss the show. PDX Pirates: Sign on for a Full Share Heather's web site http://www.heatherlands.com/

Aye, Townsend has some really fine period buttons, and they are good to deal with. Another way to deal with buttons within yer budget would be to use covered buttons. Find them in the notions dept. Or even thrift stores. But then there is the time in making them... You can also put these together without fabric and then they are just plain domed silver metal buttons! And who says a pirate's buttons have to match? Why not mix designs while sticking to one size and metal color? Others have suggested the big tub 'o metallic buttons (about 5-6 dollars) available at craft stores like Michaels or Oriental Trading Co. Great if ye can abide the dread "Plastique", some are metal sometimes. I've found some really nice ones with rampant lions, and crests and thistles and other "period" looking designs in these assortments. If ye have "smalls" at home let them string the leftover tub o' buttons on an elastic string fer very piratey jewelry at yer next pirate party.

You Washington folk who were posting , looking for events may be interested in this one!

Aye, the PDX Pirates and BOOM raid the Lady each spring as she makes her way home North from warmer southern Waters. Last year we booked nearly the entire ship in Coos Bay and ended up on the 11 0'clock news..... Ye can see pictures at our friend MacKay's hat site: Captain Jack's Pirate Hats Gallery This year Ms. Jenna's invite (and the fact that the dates no longer conflict with Glastonbury Ren Faire in Newport, OR) is makin' it quite likely we'll be joinin' her in Ilwaco! Silent... We started the PDX Pirate Calendar and Yahoo Group, so that Newcomers like yerself could join us... we be a friendly bunch! You can see what's coming at .... PDX Pirate Raid Calendar note we'll be in Tacoma, WA this Friday! Harbormaster ... likewise fer ye! Hope to be crossing blades sometime soon!

Was there any more info about a rumored NEW Faire to be held in Oregon between Eugene and Portland?

Heather Alexander and Uffington Horse @ Shakabrah Java, Tacoma Friday February 25, 2005 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Get there early for a seat I'm told! Event Location: 2618 6th Ave, Tacoma, WA http://www.uffingtonhorse.com Come see Heather's band and rock to the sounds of Uffington Horse! $10.00 cover charge

Glad ye found us at PDX Pirate Yahoo Group! The Calendar of events is where to find other like minded Scallywags!... RAIDS WITHIN ONE DAY'S SAIL From Portland Oregon. This Friday a raiding party will be headin' to see The Red Haired Fiddler and her band Uffington Horse at Tacoma towne at Shakabrah Java Coffee House. Join us if ye dare!

We have a Pirate event calendar with events ONE DAY'S SAIL from Portland, Oregon. LOW VOLUME e-mail list (under 10 messages per month) with semi monthly newsletters and Pirate Raid alerts. This is the place to check for updates to events as listed above. Our membership spans most of the local crews including re-enactors, SCA, fantasy and faire pirates. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pdxpirate/. We have also recently started a local Portland Pirate Pub for the scuttlebutt, inspired by this one! http://Pub.PyratesR.US You and other Oregon, Washington pirates be welcome on-board either or both.

Okey dokey... here goes.. I like to live dangerously... Is there any historical reference for peg legged, shoeless cannibals wearing earring(s), eyepatches, bandannas on their heads and ticked trews having monkeys or parrots or ferrets as pets during the Golden Age of Piracy ? Did I miss anything? What kind of hat would this creature wear? Cocked or cavalier, stovepipe or straw? And the ladies, let's not ferget them..... Would they wear dressies at home and fight in men's duds? Inquiring minds want to know the depths of yer imaginins'. Oh yeah... this is pretend.....

scarce here too at least in the Isle de Suburbia side of Portlandia... Its pretty easy to order on-line though.....

Aye, Pyrate Jenny. My persona borrowed a bit from that one!... All the night through, through the noise and to-do You wonder who is that person that lives up there? And you see me stepping out in the morning Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair And the ship The Black Freighter runs a flag up its masthead and a cheer rings the air

But what I really want to know... Is there any historical reference for shoeless cannibals wearing earring(s) and ticked trews during the Golden Age of Piracy? Oh, and whipped cream be better than ketchup! *Ducking before me head gets knocked off!!!!*

Ahoy Wartooth, we'll be keeping ye a seat at the Urban Grind coffee house fer when ye get's back home to Port-Land.

Aye, ye do good lad! A credit to yer gender and quite a talent. Now if'n I could just get me bloody band of miscreants to take up the needle, they could all have new duds by May day! I've got a back order of fancy coats to cut n sew. Damn that Jack Sparrow! They used to be happy with slops!

I must say that I admire a man with earring(s)!

Regarding Black dye: From my reading black dye was costly and not likely to be used, I think for common sailor's clothes. If it started out black the color would have faded to grey-blue in usage anyway. Someone else on the board mentioned the little book "The Devil's Cloth: a history of stripes and striped fabric" by Michel Pastoureau. Columbia University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-231-12366-3 Intriguing book about the history of striped cloth and its historic use to designate heretics, bastards, prisoners, prostitutes, servants, jugglers, executioners, those on the fringes of social order and later revolutionaries. Seems some Carmelite monks came back to France from a crusade wearing striped robes from the Middle East and set off a 50-year battle with the Vatican. The medieval mind was sorely offended by the loud design and the idea of the juxtaposition of two colors in repeat pattern. "Barres" were added to the coat of arms of illegitimate sons. By the mid-seventeenth century the horizontal sailor’s stripe appears as red and white or blue and white. By the end of the 18th Century, the common seaman wore a knit striped jersey, distinguishing him from the officers. In the French Navy an officer promoted through the ranks rather than Naval School was called a “zebra”. Spinnakers are striped because the design makes the ship seem like it is moving faster than a plain sail. Then we have the "insurrection" stripes of both the French and the American revolutions and flags. By 1775 the stripe of the uprisings for liberty became popular among the gentry and considered romantic and the "American stripe " became popular in Europe. The author doesn't specifically mention pirates, but when pirates were romanticized in the 19th Century. They were shown wearing fashionable and flamboyant striped garments, of course. Time to sew that striped petticoat I was pondering....

New Tour Dates are up Floggin' Molly site including Seattle this weekend Feb. 11/12 I can't go! Quite an extensive tour south, midwest and then ending in Vegas in March. Maybe after Lost Wages they'll sail to Portlandia!