Cape Cod Pirate Festival

The Pirates return to kick off the Summer Season in Yarmouth at the Third Annual Cape Cod Pirate Festival! The event will offer two swashbuckling weekends, with an additional pub stage, more entertainment, and more all-around piratical fun!

This year’s Pirate Fest will offer an immersive event for families and adventure seekers across the Cape. The event will feature multiple stages of pirate themed entertainment, music, shanties, interactive pirate actors, games, rides, black powder demonstrations, and pirate themed vendors. Participants will be invited to test their hand at knife and axe throwing, get a fantasy face painting, or just enjoy a pint and watch the music and performers who will be on the stages and streets.

This year, our expanded pub will feature interactive bar entertainment including the “Stationary Pub Crawl”, a pirate-led experience in Old Tom’s Tavern consisting of pirate drinking games and games of chance. The pub will also feature the ever-so-slightly-bawdy (PG-13) revelry of our Purveyors of the Pour, the Harlot Queens! Easy on the ears and easy on the eyes, these ladies will regale you with song as they fill your glass.

Visitors will also see additional rides and games from New World Games, which include a human powered carousel and the infamous “Hurlinator”. Games of skill and chance return, such as the Axe and Knife throwing walls, and other, new challenges await!

The festival welcomes back favorite performances such as the rollicking pirate band, The Plankwalkers, the ever-boisterous (and sorta-local) Crimson Pirates, as well as new entertainers such as the Foxy Bard.

The Yarmouth Minutemen Militia will return as their piratical alter-egos “Jeramiah’s Gunners” as they provide explosive live-fire demonstrations from flintlocks and even a canon! The “Rogue’s Armada”, a pirate reenactment troupe raising money for Feeding America, returns as well and will provide a host of interactive family entertainment and performances throughout the day.

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