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UPCOMING PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
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Janesville Renaissance Faire
May 17-18, 2008
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Bounding Main is happy to announce that
they will be participating in this show. From the hosts:
"The Janesville Renaissance Faire Inc. is excited to announce the
third annual Janesville Renaissance Faire will be held at Traxler
Park in Janesville, WI on May 17-18 2008. We invite you to
come out and have some fun watching and interacting with the many
performers as well as shopping at the exotic vendors during this
exciting two-day trip into an old world experience!" The
people running this event are top notch and the event, by all
accounts, is said to be quite charming. We're looking forward
to bringing our music and stories to this venue. For more
information on this event see:
http://jvlfaire.gsmbristol.org/Performers.htm
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Deport Bounding Main Campaign
Extravaganza May 31, 2008
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Great news! Our final
Deport Bounding Main event will be
in the same building as the hilarious duo,
MooNiE and BrooN. The great
MooNiE himself will be gracing our humble stage, bringing his
peculiar brand of comedic skills to wow the crowd. In return,
Bounding Main will open for each of MooNiE and BrooN's performances
with a couple tunes to warm up the crowd. It'll be the coolest thing
since we opened for the 80's hair band Slaughter back in 2004 (true
story!).
We welcome MooNiE and
BrooN fans to our event and we strongly encourage you, our faithful
fans, to buy tickets to see their show either before or after ours.
If you've never seen these guys perform before, you've got to see
what you've been missing! You won't be sorry.
We are also very happy to announce that joining us will be
the delightful and exotic tribal dance troupe
Rakhshanda. We last performed
together at last year's Port Washington Pirate festival and they are
great artists whose dances you will enjoy!
Plus we'll have a silent
auction, our final fund-raising effort for the Deport Bounding Main
campaign for our European voyage this year!
The event will be at the Gorton
Community Center in Lake Forest Illinois on May 31, 2008 4PM - 8PM.
Included in our event will be several fundraising efforts, including
a silent auction and Operation Share the Shanties. For more
information on our show and on MooNiE and BrooN's shows, head
to
http://www.gortoncenter.org/,
http://www.moonieandbroon.com/,
http://www.rakhshanda.com/ or
of course,
http://www.boundingmain.com.
And while our show is free you can get tickets to the MooNie & BrooN
Show through their website.
Download the poster for the show
here!
Click
here for previews of the Silent
Auction items!
We hope to see you at the "Deport Fundraiser/Fifth Birthday
Party/Lots of Great Entertainment/Extravaganza!" |
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Port Washington Pirate
Festival June 7-8, 2008
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Bounding Main is happy to announce that
they will be sharing their sea shanties with thousands of pirates
that will descend upon Port Washington, Wisconsin for this
fourth-annual Aaarh-straviganza. Already the second largest
event in picturesque Port Washington, the Pirate Festival draws
people from all over the United States for three days of fun and
adventure. Last year there was a show featuring a cannon
battle between the town militia and a pirate ship, a parade,
musicians, variety acts, lots of vendors, food and pirates
everywhere! We are particularly delighted to announce that our
friends
Jesse Linder,
Rakhshanda
and
The Jolly Rogers will be
joining us this year! For more information see
http://www.portpiratefestival.com.
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Letters from Fans and Friends
"Rich voices, beautiful melodies and a touch of humor make this
album a favorite. The first time I listened to it, I was driving
in a snowstorm. It was the perfect accompaniment for my snowy
adventure."
Our friend alicja, commenting on
CDBaby about our latest CD,
Going Overboard |
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NEW!
Bristol Renaissance Faire - July
12-13, 2008 |
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Bounding Main returns to our home port
of Bristol Harbour at the Bristol Renaissance Faire. Located just
off of Highway 94 at the Illinois-Wisconsin border, this venue is
one of the oldest and most popular events of its kind. We bring our
inimitable renditions of maritime music to those 40 acres of
historical costumes, entertainment, musicians, food and shops on
Saturday and Sunday. We'll announce which stages on which
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Festival Maritim in Bremen,
Germany - August 8-10, 2008 |
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Bounding Main is delighted to announce
that they're going overseas to Bremen, Germany for this long-running
maritime venue, Festival Maritim. This will be our first
European show and it is made possible by the incredible support of
our fans through their participation in the
Deport Bounding Main campaign.
It is through the generous and kind gifts of our friends that we are
reaching our goal of raising enough money for our transportation to
Europe for this event. We are delighted that sea shanties
remain hugely popular in Germany, as they are in The Netherlands,
Poland, England and France - this should be an amazing event!.
For more information on Festival Maritim see
http://www.festival-maritim.de/english.html
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NEW!
Radio Interview with
Trossen Los on Radio Ridderkerk, The Netherlands - August 11,
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Radio host Ad van Eijk of
Trossen Los will interview us for
his program on August 11, 2008. Trossen Los is a long-running
Dutch-language program that features maritime music and sea shanties
from groups all over the world. We will visit Ridderkerk for a
day for this interview to finally meet Mijnheer van Eijk and his
crew. Escorting us will be Bert Hobo of
Paddy's Passion, who has generously
offered to play tour guide for Bounding Main. |
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NEW!
Operation Share the
Shanties in Landstuhl, Germany - August 13, 2008
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Bounding Main will be entertaining at
the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany on August
13, 2008. The LRMC is the American military hospital where
some of the most severely wounded members of our armed forces are
sent for medical attention and rehabilitation. As part of our
visit we created a project called Operation Share the Shanties,
which is to provide a special "Best of Bounding Main" CD to the
soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen being cared for at the
facility. We have several generous sponsors of this project,
including
Northern Wings Repair, Inc.,
ROM Squared, Inc.,
Transcendent LLC,
The ADS Group and of course all of
you who have sponsored the gift of a Personalized Message CD
to one of the wounded that we'll be visiting. We are honored
be able to perform for these men and women who are the kinds of
heroes we can only sing about. If you want to sponsor a CD to
one of our wounded military members please contact Gunner Maggie at
maggiehannington@hotmail.com for
more information, or see us at one of our shows before August.
More information on the Medical Center can be found on the official
US Army web site:
http://www.landstuhl.healthcare.hqusareur.army.mil/. |
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NEW!
Operation Share the Shanties at
Spangdahlem Air Base - August 14, 2008
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Bounding Main will be entertaining
airmen and their families at the American Air Force
facility at Spangdahlem on August 14, 2008. Located
near the small German town of Spangdahlem, with larger cities nearby
including Bitburg and Trier, Spangdahlem Air Base consists of the
main base and the Bitburg Annex, located approximately 20 minutes
from the main base. The 52nd Fighter Wing -- the base's host wing --
is involved in numerous deployments around the globe, and its
members are always prepared to project superior combat power,
following the motto: "SEEK ATTACK DESTROY." The base supports
a number of personnel and their families and is an American enclave
deep within the heart of Germany. More information on
Spangdahlem Air Base can be found at the official US Air Force web
site:
http://www.spangdahlem.af.mil/.
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NEW!
Liereliet Festival in Workum,
Friesland, The Netherlands - October 18-19, 2008 |
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happy to announce that they will be participating in a
wonderful event in a town deep in the Netherlands that is
richly steeped in maritime history. The Liereliet
Festival has been hosting big names in the maritime
music genre for a long time and have invited us to come out
in 2008 to join in on the fun. The festival begins a
week of sailing events with traditional vessels, called the
Strontrace. Therefore part of the festival will be held
in the harbor of the old Zuiderzee city of Workum. The start
of the race with traditional ships built for the inland
waters is on the following Monday. We are tickled pink to be
able to join them for this wonderful event. For more
information on this festival see
http://www.liereliet.nl/English.htm
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Bounding Main Concert - Skokie
Theatre - November 15, 2008
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This is a year of firsts and
we're closing the season with another - Bounding Main will
have a show all to ourselves at a wonderful music venue, the
Skokie Theater. Bounding Main has been entertaining at tall
ship events, maritime festivals, music festivals,
renaissance faires, pirate gatherings and now we will be
performing at this beautiful, centrally located venue. Come
hear the music that has brought joy to so many, see the show
that has made so many laugh! Come learn a thing or two about
the traditional music that we sing about! Showtime is 7:30
and tickets will be $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
http://www.skokietheatre.com
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NEWS |
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Radio Play this week for
Bounding Main Songs |
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Starting with Thursday 3 April 2008
Trossen Los on Radio Ridderkerk is playing our version of Irish
Rover. You can download the program
here.
Bilgemunky Radio's March 31st program features our version of
Derelict. Find all about Bilgemunky's program
here. |
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Bounding Main's CDs available
in Europe from The Chantey Cabin |
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Ken & Jan Lardner
of The Chantey Cabin have generously offered to manage our
CDs for our European excursion this summer. This wonderful
couple have been selling maritime music at tall ship and sea music
festivals in Europe for years. In addition to their traveling
store they have a great website at
http://www.chanteycabin.co.uk/.
Their latest venture is to launch an online shanty music broadcast
called "Scuttlebutt
Radio." We very much look forward to actually
meeting them in person at Festival Maritim. |
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Renaissance Festival
Awards: We Finished in the Top Five Again! |
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www.renaissancefestivalmusic.com/awards/
We are very proud to announce that we finished in the top five "Best
Music Groups of 2007!" Congratulations to our friends
Seelie Court, Jesse Linder and Phil Johnson for
each winning awards in other categories! |
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Bounding Main
Makes the Big Time - We're Referenced on a Quilting Blog!
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Our wonderful friend Tyanne Agle has posted a note about our
latest CD,
Going Overboard, on her quilting blog, found here:
http://www.tyquilts.com/blog.
Hey, this is how the word gets out folks! And now a bunch of
you are going to start quilting, aren't you? |
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Bounding Main's
Third CD "Going Overboard" is now available!
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After two years
Bounding Main has released its third music collection, "Going
Overboard." There are fourteen fantastic maritime tunes for
your listening pleasure, from Maggie Hannington's uplifting original
song "To Ireland We'll Go" to Christie Dalby and Gina Dalby's
original pub favorite "Pass the Mug" to David Yondorf's tribute to his band mates "Toss and Roll"
to Jon Krivitzky's moving arrangement of "Farewell to Taerwathie"
this CD is filled with fun and harmony and is a tribute to our
maritime heritage. |
Click Here For Bounding Main
Promotional Video for Going Overboard |
Going Overboard
author: Ty
Bounding Main just keeps getting better and better. From the
hauntingly beautiful harmonies of Fareweel tae Tarwathie to
the sexy sound of Blow Liza Blow to the sheer fun of songs
like pass the mug. Oh, and I can't forget To Ireland, Ocean
liner etc. There is something for everyone on this CD and a
new favorite every time I listen. This is a fun listen from
start to finish and you'll be singing along. Oh, and if you
get the chance, go see them in person. An experience not to
be forgotten in pure fun and entertainment. |
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The CD is now
available from CDBaby and will soon be available on iTunes, Napster,
Rhapsody and other digital distributors. If you would like
autographed copies you can order from us directly: write to
Gunner Maggie at
maggiehannington@hotmail.com. |
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Bounding Main Appears on
Renaissance Festival Podcast Compilation CD
Since 2005, the Renaissance Festival
Podcast has brought great Renaissance festival entertainment to your
ears. This compilation is designed to help promote the podcast and
a few of the great entertainers who frequent the show. It's a lot
like an episode of the podcast without all the talking.
Favorable reviews feature the following comments: "You have
the wonderful harmonies of Bounding Main on High Barbaree to help
satisfy that pirate in all of us." and "If one is looking for the
highly polished, overdubbed, synthetic music, then look elsewhere.
This is music in the raw. Sweet blended harmonies [in] 'High
Barbaree' . . ."
You can find
this excellent collection for sale on
CDBaby. |
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Bounding Main Appears on
Lafitte's Return, Volume 2
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Lafitte's Return Vol. 2 |
Pirates for the Preservation of New Orleans
Music and
ModernBard.org are pleased to
announce the two CD release, Lafitte's Return.
Both volumes may be purchased
online through Kunaki through these links:
Volume #1
Volume #2
With the largest gathering of seadogs since Morgan sacked Panama,
these albums cover a wide range of styles from traditional shanties, to pirate ska and pirate metal. There is something for everyone on these CDs.
The CDs are a who's who of the top names in pirate and maritime
entertainment including, Skip Henderson & the Starboard Watch, the
Pyrates Royale, Tom Lewis and many others who volunteered their
music to this project.
The proceeds from this CD project benefit the New Orleans school
music programs. PPNOM is dedicated to replacing the musical
instruments destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, especially now when
spending on New Orleans music programs is at an all time low. By
purchasing this CD for yourself (or as a gift for that pirate lover
in your life) you are helping the pirate community ensure that the
musical soul of New Orleans lives on for generations to come. |
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