Day 79: I have been summoned once again to appear on the sorcerer's box, which they claim will project me image into homes across the village of Nashville and surrounding bergs. I am to appear between the hours of 11…
Read more
Sep 18 2017
Feb 17 2015
The Blue Buccaneers, seeking out new trade routes, discover Australia!
Day 6 Geelong, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. Still no sign of kangaroos or kookaburras, but acclimating to the environment quite easily, thanks to the unparalleled congeniality of the natives. We arrived on Tuesday the 17th of March 2015 after…
Read more
Jul 21 2014
Tall Ships Races Fredrikstad Norway 2014
ARRRR!! We had a wonderful time at Tall Ships Races Fredrikstad 2014 in Norway! The British Blue Buccaneers (Pete McLeod and Tracey Bearmore) and I arrived on Friday 11 July on the island if Isegran and were greeted by our…
Read more
Jun 7 2014
Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival 2014
Once again we had a roaring time at the big Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival in Fort Walton Beach Florida. We had a conga line and some great sing-alongs, and the weather was perfect!
The wonderful crew that organize the festival…
Read more
Apr 25 2014
Pirates of the Carrabellean!!
We had a most successful raid on the Pirates of the Carrabellean Festival, AKA the Carrabelle Riverfront festival. So successful, in fact, the mayor gave us the key to the city! (Rumor has it the locks were changed immediately!)
Pete…
Read more
Feb 7 2014
Captain's Blog Blue Buccaneers Raid on the Virgin Islands, 2014
Day one. I arrived on the island of St Thomas in the Lesser Antilles with a new crew. I have not breathed a word to them of my past misadventures, or the crew who so ruthlessly marooned me here last…
Read more
Dec 31 2013
Happy New Year!
Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers are getting shipshape for a wonderful 2014! We're booking festivals through the year, including a two month tour of the United Kingdom and Europe lasting from mid-June to mid-August. Check our calendar frequently for…
Read more
May 4 2013
Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers at The Brixham Pirate Festival in Brixham, England
We had the greatest time playing at the Brixham Pirate Festival in Brixham, Devon, on the southwest coast of England. The weather was perfect, the festival was filled with fine looking pirates, and the crowds sang our songs with gusto…
Read more
Apr 27 2013
Ireland Shows Kilkenny and Tramore
Well blow me down, I seem to have forgotten to put down the guitar and pick up camera to take pictures of my musical engagements. Well, the interiors of these establishments are even better than the exteriors. Thursday night Tony… Read more
Apr 27 2013
Shed shopping in Ireland 2
In my continuing search for a tool shed for my Shelby Park Estate I came across this fixer-upper in Kilkenny on the banks of the River Nore in Ireland. granted, it may be a little spacious for the lawnmower and…
Read more
Apr 25 2013
Shed Shopping in Ireland
While in Ireland I'm researching designs for a toolshed, somewhere to keep my lawnmower, bicycles, and weed-whacker in East Nashville. Here are two possibilities. The first is a nice little norman number in Ballyhack in County Wexford, perhaps a…
Read more
Apr 23 2013
Captain's Blog, February 1717
What is this strange place? Why has my crew marooned me here with only a musket and a fishhook? Will I ever see The village of French Lick again?
Day 8. Still no sign of other humans. Wasted only bullet…
Read more