Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate doesn’t rest on his laurels. Following a debut album in 2010, Give Me an RRR!, and a DVD in 2012, Lights … Camera … RRR!, Jeffersonville’s most amiable, landlocked corsair is back with another collection of kid-friendly sea shanties, Pirate Parrrty! It’s a treasure chest loaded with 20 original songs, running the gamut from upbeat, contemporary pop (“We RRR the Pirate People”) to gentle lullabies (“Safe Harbors”). While the album’s lengthy 47-minute runtime — not to mention the eye-rolling overuse of “RRR!” puns — may send seasick parents down the plank, their little scallywags will undoubtedly get a kick out of Ron’s silly swashbuckling.

“Pirate Parrrty!”: The album is available at Buttered Noodles in Williston and Smugglers’ Notch Resort; soon to be available on iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby. Info, rockinronthefriendlypirate.com.


This article was originally published in Seven Days’ monthly parenting magazine, Kids VT.

This article appears in The Tech Issue October 2013 (Kids VT).

Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to see rock shows for a living. He became assistant arts editor in 2017 and culture coeditor in 2021. Bolles has received numerous local and national awards for his writing on Vermont arts, sports and the occasional celebrity canine murder mystery. He loves...