Motley Tones

We sing an eclectic mix of period and not-so-period maritime tunes, sea shanties, madrigals, love songs and children songs. We aim to entertain and interact with our audience rather than perform background or dancing music.

Our songs range from a capella harmonies to traditional "call and response" tunes to duets & solo ballads. All loosely tied to the "Golden Age of Piracy." We incorporate pieces of period garb and stories into our performance as well as just plain fun stuff.

We are capable of providing 2-3 entertainers, or the entire group of 6 and tailor our show accordingly.

We provide a group of 2-7 performers who can provide a musical program for your party, event, or sea battle. We entertain adults and children alike. We perform a variety of maritime, piratical, Celtic and renaissance tunes--some with accompaniment, some without and most with beautiful and ear-pleasing musicality to which people everywhere love to listen.

Our repertoire includes sea chanteys, madrigals, traditional and modern tunes--mostly related to the early years of maritime & pirate history. We dress in semi-authentic garb, which is to say that we strive to look like pirates by using as much period material as we can while still being "visually interesting" as performers.

Child-friendliness and bawdiness can be tuned to taste--let us know what you want.

We can perform from stage, where we typically require 3-6 microphones and 2-3 D/I connections for the guitar, fiddle, and mandolin internal pick-ups.

We can also work "unplugged," moving in and around the audience and interacting directly with them. Great for parties and "street performing."