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4/09/2010 6th Annual Privateer Day All Day

On Friday and Saturday April 9th and 10th, 2010, Fell’s Point Main Street will host the 6th Annual Privateer Day in Baltimore, Maryland. The nautical and pirate -themed festival kicks off Friday night April 9 with a Swashbuckler Soiree from 8pm to midnight at the Frederick Douglass Museum. This fundraiser (tickets are $40/45) includes live music from the Brigands & hors devours in the form of a taste of 12 Fells Point restaurants. Dress is pirate attire or black tie, please.

Saturday’s free Privateer Day runs from 11am to 6pm and features lives music
from the Brigands, Captain Thomas Flint and Inishowen, unique vendors,
children’s activities and much more. Highlights include a Living History Camp at Bond Street Wharf Park, mock sword battle, live parrots and a village wide treasure hunt. Climb on board and tour visiting tall ships such as the Pride of Baltimore II. New this year – special appearances by Treva Etienne and Vince Lozano, from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, the HMS Bounty will be in attendance, you can learn the difference between Pirates and the importance of Privateers through our interactive children’s activities. Also, catch the Chesapeake Derby Roller Girls, the nation’s only all female, pirate themed roller derby team.

The afternoon concludes with a bang- a battle at sea just off Fell’s Point
including the Pride of Baltimore II, HMS Bounty and schooner Farewell
recreating a privateer attack on a pirate ship, complete with cannon and
gunfire. Come see who will gain control of Fell’s Point!
 
The evening kicks off at 7:00pm with a Pyrate Invasion at over 15 local pubs, featuring Pusser’s Rum and other food and drink specials. Tickets are $3/5 and come complete with a button and invasion map filled with pub specials. Come plunder the point ‘till midnight with several hundred of your closest pirate friends.

For more information visit: www.fellspointmainstreet.org

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