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 We just received word that our friend Johnny Collins passed away in Gdansk, Poland where he was performing for their Tall Ship Concert this week. Since the 50's Johnny has been a mainstay on the shanty music scene, performing all over the world with many recordings to his credit. We were very privileged to have performed with him at the Chicago Maritime Festival in 2007 and at the Liereliet Festival in Workum, The Netherlands in 2008. Despite his world-wide renown he was a very warm and approachable person who was quick to share an anecdote, share a song or share a joke. In 2007 we shared a music panel about Pirates and Scoundrels with Johnny. At one point, as we're all given to do, Johnny stopped himself having forgotten lyrics. Gina promptly hung our "Weakest Link" sign on him, which took him aback, then he found enormously amusing. In 2008 at the Liereliet festival his long-time partner Jim Mageean stumbled on some lyrics and Gina promptly hung our "Weakest Link" sign on him! Johnny was delighted at the razz! "Ha! Now HE'S the Weakest Link!" Over the last fifty years Johnny has made many, many friends who all have some story to share about him. He will be much missed.Tags: bounding main, johnny collins, legend, loss, shanty, sorrow
Current Location: Home office
Current Mood:  pensive
Current Music: Bound for the Rio Grande by Johnny Collins
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Some of you know the troubles with the management of this show over the years. Some people feel that the woman that founded this festival and pretty much runs it on her own dime for the last four seasons can be difficult to work with. I've worked with MUCH worse. In any event, citing difficulties working with this person, a bunch of people quit between last season and this one, leaving a lot of gaps in work needed to be done. I stepped in at the 11th hour to get the show in order. We probably did six months of work in one-and-a-half. Bounding Main has lost several gigs over the last few years due to the economy and "big fish in little pond" stupidity. I didn't want to lose another gig - particularly one in our back yard and SO fun. So I seriously revamped the web site, did a bunch of essential marketing things, worked on entertainment and organization and brought some really great people on board to help manage the event. Thank god for Chris Last and Kristen North managing the reenactors and volunteers, respectively. I sent out an broadcast email to all of the area radio stations, offering to give them tickets for two pirate cruises on Friday night aboard the tall ship The Windy. No reply all day today, which leaves tomorrow. Kim should not have waited until a week away from the event to try to give away tickets. Things will be different next year, I assure you. Oh, Jon Baade had a personal loss this week, which put Water Street Bridge out for Saturday, maybe Sunday, too. TJ and Amanda Hull graciously stepped up to perform maritime hornpipes as Ogham for WSB's sets. I'm still waiting to hear from Jon about Sunday but Ogham can take the shows and I have a back up artist in the wings, too. We'll see. While I want this festival to be a smash hit again (year five, after all!) I want to drop the administrative cloak at the end of Friday and just have performance fun with Bounding Main for the rest of the weekend. We're SO looking forward to hanging out with our pals in The Jolly Rogers, too. It is going to be a great weekend, in any case. www.portpiratefestival.com www.deancalin.com Tags: bounding main, jolly rogers, music, pirate, port washington
Current Location: Racine, WI
Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: Bounding Main
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I discovered that we will be sharing a taxi with Tom Kastle and Mariah Clark from Amsterdam to Workum. This should be great fun as we all get along famously. And all the girls are ga-ga over Tom, so I can, you know, focus on reading my psalm book. It sure will be nice to not have any distractions, except to fetch drinks, probably. Tags: amsterdam, bounding main, commuting, festival, friesland, liereliet, netherlands, sea shanties, workum
Current Location: Poop deck
Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Silence
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Ahoy mates!Are you planning to come to our show at the Skokie Theatre Nov. 15? We are working hard on bringing you some unique goodies in this show, including several new songs. We hope to see lots of you there!
How would you like to stand at the microphone and introduce Bounding Main, welcoming us onto the stage for the Skokie show? Here's your new contest:
1. Write an introduction - it can be as long or as short as you like, but remember that humor goes far with us. This is your chance to bring out that long-held secret that only you know about us. Or pull out your best Ed McMahon impression. Or, you know, just say a few kind words about your pals in Bounding Main.
2. Send your entry/entries directly to me, by email.
3. From the entries, we will choose the top 3 finalists. We will call you up and have you do your intro over the phone On Sunday Oct 26, and from there we will judge the best of the best.
The prize for the winner:
**Introducing Bounding Main in a pivotal show!
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**2 tickets to the show!
The deadlines for entries is Wednesday Oct 22. Gunner Maggie Bounding Main Tags: bounding main, concert, live music, pirates, sea shanties, skokie theatre, tall ships
Current Location: The gun deck
Current Music: High Barbaree
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4th Annual Renaissance Festival Awards 2008
Q: Do you have a favorite entertainment group that performed at a Renaissance faire near you?
A: Bounding Main!
Q: Is there a band whose CDs you love to listen to again and again?
A: Bounding Main!
From Marc Gunn's "Renaissance Festival Podcast:" "Once a year, we compile a list of the most-popular Renaissance Festival performers currently performing at Renaissance faires. From now until December 31, 2008, you can vote for your favorites at faire. The following day, I will tally up the votes and compile a podcast to be released in January featuring all of your favorite groups of 2008."
Bounding Mainiacs and friends, so we ask you to, "Please vote for us!" Tell your friends, family, cats and cars to go to http://www.renaissancefestivalmusic.com/awards/ and vote for Bounding Main! Well, don't cheat, 'cause that would be wrong and Marc Gunn would get mad - but please get the word out to everyone you know that has heard us! We performed at the Bristol Ren Faire and the Janesville Ren Faire this year: with our oversea schedule it is all we had time for!
We love you all and and thank you in advance if you vote for us!
PS Please, please, please be sure to vote for all of the other wonderful Bristol performers such as Jesse Linder for solo musical artist! Well, there are a bunch of fun categories - what are you waiting for? Go see for yourself!
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Dean Calin
Bounding Main
www.boundingmain.com
"Ahoy, Mates!"Tags: award, bounding main, favorite band, podcast, renaissance festival podcast
Current Location: Bald Mountain
Current Mood:  thankful
Current Music: Night on Bald Mountain
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Our Star Mainiac for September 2008 is ... Gerard Heidgerken, otherwise known as Bilgemunky!! Bilgemunky is the only full-time Pirate I know; check out his website! (How appropriate, to feature this fellow on 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'.) Listen to Bilgemunky's radio show also, which he broadcasts every Monday. Bilgemunky Radio is an incredibly eclectic mix of hard core Pirate music, shanties, ballads, folksy stuff, rock, and even a little Bounding Main now and then. You can make requests! (www.bilgemunky.com) 
Through his website, reviews of our music, and featuring us on his show, Bilgemunky has probably brought in more folks to the Mainiac fold, than any other single person. He is also an eloquent and loyal Mainiac. See photo below, complete with excellent Pirate handsomeness ... and prominently featured Deport Bounding Main button. Here's what Bilgemunky has to say: Q: Have you seen Bounding Main live? If so, how many times? A: Aside from the Port Washington Pirate Festival in 2005,there were also the other three Port Washington Pirate Festivals, so that makes for Four. Plus the two years you performed at the St. Louis Pirate Festival (running total of six), the Chicago Maritime Heritage Festival (seven), and the release party for Lost at Sea (eight). And oh yeah, let's not forget the Going Overboard release party at Paddy's Pub in Milwaukee, where it was sweltering inside from the immense Bounding Mainiac crowds, while being, what, 40 below outside? So nine times, I think. More or less. Not nearly, nearly enough ;) Q: How many Bounding Main CD’s are in your car/iPod/stereo –and what is your preferred method of listening? A: I have a very small mp3 player - only one gig. So no albums have a permanent home there. <Editor's note: WHAT> But all three Bounding Main albums continue to spend their due time on board now and again - Lost at Sea most of all. I'm quite the fan of 'Dreadnaught', although 'High Barbary' is right up there as well. Q: Anything else you would like to share? A: Well, I do take special pride in that I possess one of the only known bootleg recordings of Bounding Main singing a dirty ditty. I'm still contemplating the appropriate blackmail. <Editor's note: we are family-friendly. The ransom is on its way.> Congratulations to Gerard 'Bilgemunky' Heidgerken, Bounding Mainiac of September 2008!! And Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!! Gunner Maggie
Bounding Main
www.boundingmain.com Tags: bilgemunky, bounding main, bounding mainiac, maritime music, pirate, sea shanties
Current Location: Bottle of Rum
Current Mood: chipper
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Well, the seven of us are off to Germany tomorrow! I'm more anxious than excited at this point because I live in fear of forgetting something unrecoverable. I think I've got it all covered however. I'm looking forward to being on the plane and being able to relax into the reality of the trip. We've all worked so hard to raise the money to cover the costs of this and the project kept growing! What was originally to be performing at an international music festival (Festival Maritim in Vegesack, Bremen, Germany) grew into entertaining our wounded troops at the largest American military hospital outside of the US and two American airbases for airmen and their families. PLUS three radio interview, PLUS Armed Forces Television covering our show at the miitary hospital. PLUS the whole Operation Share the Shanties project of giving CDs with personal notes from everyone who could get involved to the military personnel we encounter.
Simply amazing. This group is the best, the absolute best company of friends I've ever associated with.
I will miss my dear wife, Richelle, of course. She has four fuzzy kids to keep her company, but I will only have a plate of wienerschnitzel and sauerkraut to keep me warm at night. Sigh.
So, we're keeping a blog of the trip: please visit it and say hello? http://bounding.wohlershome.net/blog/
Have fun everyone! Tags: a capella, bounding main, festival maritim, germany, sea shanties
Current Location: Home Office
Current Music: Maine Songs by Schooner Fare
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Picture a maritime town in the heart of where Green Bay meets Lake Michigan. Sturgeon Bay has a marvelous history, an excellent museum and one of the most fun festivals you'll ever see. Not only will you see various new and classic boats, you will experience a competition where teams assemble boats out of provided materials and endeavor to float and navigate around in them. Thousands of people come out for this competition every year and Bounding Main returns for our third year to provide rich nautical music for the show on Saturday August 1st. (Please note that we will NOT be performing on Sunday.) 
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