Today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day and we had the opportunity to talk with our local favorite pirate – Tom Mason, who will perform at Pilgrimage Festival Saturday at 1 p and Sunday at 2 p on the Lil’ Pilgrims stage.
Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers is a wild band of Nashville musicians who dress like pirates and play a rollicking mix of piratical sing-alongs, rousing historical rave-ups, Afro-Cuban tinged ballads, Cajun sea shanties, and bluesy Irish jigs, all celebrating the days when the seas were ruled by great sailing ships. They just released their fifth studio album If You Want To Be a Pirate but this is their first children’s album. The band will perform for the fourth time in a row at Pilgrimage Music and Culture Festival, and they plan to invade more ships and stages in the coming months.
Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers have been performing together since 2010. Over the past few years, they’ve performed kid-friendly shows at libraries and other venues. The idea of recording songs for kids surfaced in response to the audience. “As a band of pirates, we’ve spent a lot of evenings getting adults to get in touch with their inner child,” explains Mason. “I thought it was high time we helped kids do the same. It’s natural for both children and adults to be self-conscious and fearful, and all that shyness melts away when people pretend to be pirates.” For more information and the latest concert news from Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers, please visit www.tommason.net, and join the crew on the band’s Facebook page.
Watch our interview with Tom Mason below and be sure to stop by the Lil’ Pilgrim stage this weekend during Pilgrimage Festival.
