This family-friendly event features two days of activities designed to bring out the “pirate” in everyone! Costume contests, games, a treasure hunt, pirate re-enactors, and movie on the beach all combine to celebrate those scallywags we all wish we could be: pirates!
When arriving at the Pirate Party on the Beach, beware of those scurvy scallywags, The Moody Crewe. These pirate re-enactors will be posing for photographs, singing sea shanties, and demonstrating swordplay! Don’t worry, though! The Moody Crewe loves landlubbers, and this merry band of pirates will entertain as well as educate! Joining the Moody Crewe will be the Devil’s Deckhands, York Privateers, and Overland Crew.
An exciting, high-energy 30-minute show by the Shadow Players Stage Combat Group will feature actors in authentic costumes, stunts, sword-play, and audience interaction. The show will be presented several times throughout the weekend.
Pirate band The Brigands will provide lively entertainment. Music was critical to the sailing of wooden vessels. It kept the hands working and pulling in unison, through storm and wind and calm. The Brigands bring the music from the deck the pirate ship ashore for you to enjoy. Their music is a bit rowdy, always fun, and sure to get your blood pumping. Thrill to the calls for “All hands to make sail. Trice up and lay out! “. The Brigands have been called the ultimate pirate band, music that could have been heard in any dockside tavern, where sailors, pirates, buccaneers and privateers all came, to spend their hard earned ( or ill gotten) money, drinking and singing the songs of the era. The Brigands also perform a full Black Powder cannon and small arms demonstration, showing audiences the main weapons that pirates used to become the best known pre-emptive marine salvage experts in the world. The Brigands demonstrate flintlock pistols, muskets and of course, their beloved cannons!
Enter your team in the Pirates Challenge, which will test your skill in several physical challenges, all pirate-themed. Winning teams receive cash prizes and trophies! There is an entry fee for teams in the Pirates Challenge.
Dress like a pirate and take part in our costume contest!
Enjoy arts and crafts and displays by participating museum organizations:
Old Coast Guard Station
MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art)
Mariner's Museum
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum
Bacon's Castle
Old Cape Henry Lighthouse
Other activities throughout Pirate Party on the Beach include arts and crafts, bandana-making, face-painting, storytelling, and strolling entertainers Overland Crew.
Pirate Party on the Beach is FREE and open to the public.
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