Tenpenny News and Announcements

Pirates everywhere! Be there and dress for the occasion! http://www.piratepalooza.com/pubcrawl/

2010 will be the 5th year we perform at GIDF. This year Merry Peterson will be joining us, and Angela will be doing a few songs with us and also performing with the "Dulcet Dames," an 1940's style a-capella Americana group. Tenpenny has some new material this year, including a cover of "Shot Heard Round the World." As always - STAY FOR FIREWORKS!
ALSO: Failure to update - All Tara's Fault!
Oh yeah, we have a web site!

Our own Angela has been named Music Director of the Georgia Renaissance Festival.
Wow!

I was too busy with holiday stuff to notice this, but according to Angie, one of our songs, "Dapper Dan" (the one about the pirate) made the cut for the RenFest PodCast‘s compilation CD!

It‘s for sale at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/renaissancefestival/from/celtic/

Part of the proceeds for this CD go to a performer emergency fund to help out those in the faire circuit. The rest supports the podcast. We, the performers get bragging rights, which is enough for me!

Our own CD is available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/tenpennytravelers, or you can ask one of and save the shipping charges.

Wow, maybe we should get off our holiday-lazy butts and start rehearsing for a new recording!

As I‘m sure you all know, September 19th is International-Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day (popularised by Dave Barry)...
But did you also know that the event is celebrated locally with the Annual PiratePalooza PubCrawl, on September 15th, the closest Saturday (because even pirates have to work on weekdays - blast!). There will be a mob of people dressed as pirates, talking like pirates, and drinking beer. What could go wrong?

Oh, and also there will be a lot of local bands playing pirate-themed music, including the Tenpenny Travelers. I hear they ain‘t too bad.

Arr.

We will be at the Georgia Independence Day Festival again this year on July 3rd and 4th. We can be found at the Tavern Porch at 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, and 8:00.
There are fireworks at the end of both days festivities and last year they were one of the better fireworks displays that I have seen. I think we‘ll be bringing back our version of Yankee Doodle complete with spoons again ;-)


*We‘re also confirmed for this year‘s Piratepalooza. We donvt know many details yet, but we‘ll be there. We‘re learning a slew of new songs for this gig too. If you‘ve got a piratical song you think we should do, let us know!


and yes, there are still plans for a second CD. It‘s tough getting in the studio again when we‘re working on gigs. We like gigs, but we also want our second CD to get started!

Musical Guests - Tenpenny Travelers
Performing 8pm, Friday June 8th.
Crown Plaza Atlanta-Marietta 7th Annual Sci Fi Summer Con

Our "blurb" from the convention guest index:

You have reached the Tenpenny Travelers select-a-song line. Please listen closely as our options have changed:
To hear songs about death, please press 1.
For songs about beer and death, please press 2.
For songs about madness, sharp objects and death, press 3.
For songs about dismemberment, injuries, and career counseling, please press 4.
For songs about romantic mishaps, press 5.
For songs about romantic mishaps AND death, please press 6.
For songs about piracy, banditry and other social malfeasance, press 7.
For lively dance tunes with very little death, please deposit twenty five cents.
For songs suitable for children, please deposit an additional five dollars.
If you would like the Tenpenny Travelers to stop playing, hand over whatever you have left in your wallet.

TPT will perform at the Georgia Renaissance Festival on May 19-20. Come say hi!

“Cultural Arts Week”
Our third year playing for the kids and teaching dances.
May 11, 2007[Private Event]

Congratulations to our own Angela and Ariel! They landed character and combat roles at this year‘ Georgia Renaissance Festival. Look for them in battle chess and around site as their characters; Maudlin Mary Flynt the pirate and Ruby Tulypps, Kissing Wench.

TPT will also appear at the GARF 2007, but on a lighter schedule than last year. Watch this page for more specific dates.

April 18, 2007, The Five Spot

March 17, 2007 [Private Event]

TPT has been invited to perform for the annual Masked Ball at SOLAR. This was a blast the last time we played with many dancers in elaborate costumes.
Saturday, Feb 3rd, 8pm to ??

TPT will provide music for dancing at the masked-ball wedding of Michael and Tina Rollins.[Private Event]

Congratulations Mike and Tina!

“Beyond the Gate” was reviewed in Celtic MP3s Music Magazine, “a free weekly Celtic music & mp3 magazine featuring free music downloads of Celtic, Scottish, Irish music from around the world.”

You can read the review at http://celticmp3s.com/magazine/

It’s a recreation of a colonial village from 1776 and news has just arrived from Philadelphia that the Declaration of Independence has been signed. There are colonial villagers, baroque dancers, fights, musicians and everyone’s favorites- FIREWORKS!

TPT will be performing at 4:00 (tavern porch), 6:00 (main barn-miked!), and 8:00 (tavern porch).

Also, we have Ray Heffner filling in on guitar for this gig! If you’ve never heard him play before, you’re in for a treat.

The GID Fest runs 3:00 -9:00 on both days.

More information can be found at www.gidfestival.com. Hope to see you there!

Last year‘s gig at “Cultural Arts Week” was great rowdy fun! This year we return and see who remembers dance steps from last year...
May 5, 2006[Private Event]

The Tenpenny Travelers CD "Beyond the Gate" is now available for purchase!

We will have them for sale at our perfomances at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, or you can contact us to get them by mail or in person if we will see you elsewhere. The disks are $15 and include eleven songs ranging from instrumental dance pieces to vocal arrangements.

We should also have an account soon with CD Baby for online orders. More on that soon.

We‘re all very excited to have our first album available and hope you will like it too! Thanks so much to Ed King for all of his help and hard work in doing the techno-magic part of this process at Far-a-Field Studios.

We are back at the GARF for the full run this year!

Our shows are on the Greenwood Stage (near the joust) at 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00, and on the Fool's Knoll stage at 5:00. We also frequently perform at the "Pub Sing" at Brewer's Pub at 5:30.

If there is enough interest, we’ll do a dance set later in the day.

2006 GARF season is 4/15/06 through 6/4/06

See you there!

TPT will appear with various GARF cast members at Turner Field before the Braves game on Thursday, April 13.

We will be appearing at the main stage at the Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival on March 25. TPT is on the main stage for 1/2 hr at 1:30 pm.

We will perform for a dance at the King‘s Gate Festival of Cultures event on Feb 4, 2006. Look for a Korobushka Showdown with valuable prizes (and bragging rights) for the winning dancers. Last couple standing wins!

-Tara

We are excited to say that we are going “into the studio.” Our slave driver, err, fearless leader Angela has set an abitious schedule and we hope to get it done in time for our gig at the Georgia Renaissance Festival in April. We will be recording with Ed King at Far-a-Field Studios. Wish us luck!

-T

TPT appears at the school as part of “Cultural Arts Week” We will demonstrate instruments, lead a sing-along, and teach renaissance dances to elementary-aged kids.
May 6, 2005 [Private Event]

It is now official - the Tenpenny Travelers (previously known as "The King's Gate Consort") will be performing a full run at the 2006 Georgia Renaissance Festival. Details will be posted when we know them.