I enjoy ATTENDING the Maryland Renaissance Faire. I especially enjoy Pyrates Weekend (As CS can attest to)

Anyone going to a RenFaire and hoping for Historical Accuracy will be sadly upset. Folks are there to have FUN. You want button-pissing, go to an ACW encampment. I am a reenactor Nautical Living History Interpreter. My period is from early 18th to 19th Century. (my wife thinks it's funny to hear a guy talking about his period.) I do common sailor to privateer to pirate, errr... I mean "Nautical Property Reassignment Specialist" At MDRF I do a Wizard when not a pirate.

I first came to the MDRF to listen to madrigals, having been in a madrigal group in high school. Larksong performed, and the audience clapped quite politely. Then I went to the White Hart Tavern, where this bunch of guys (and 3 girls) were dressed up like pirates, and singing with raucous abandon! The crowd was CRAZY. They knew all the Lyrics, and sometimes outshouted the Pyrates! I was hooked. I bought their CD's and listened to one on the way home. It was a live recording, made at my favorite Restaurant! I went to their website, saw that some of them participated in a chantey sing, again at the same restaurant. I went, and as they say, the rest is (living) history.