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
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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.) 
