Cap’n Jack Sparrow he ain’t. But as marauding swashbucklers go, Jeffersonville’s Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate does have a certain dashing, if hokey, charm about him. With his debut DVD, Lights … Camera … RRR! Music Videos by Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate, the local children’s entertainer and would-be picaroon offers a video companion to his 2010 CD, Give Me an RRR! The 10 songs here are culled from that rollicking album and, despite egregious overuse of the “RRR!” thing, comprise a genial collection of tunes that should amuse young buccaneers and keep parents from turning to Captain Morgan on repeated — and repeated and repeated — viewings. The DVD’s spare production value may seem waterlogged compared to slicker releases from, say, Raffi. But if the eye-patch-wearing, sabre-rattling kids dancing a jig in the crowd are any indication, Rockin’ Ron’s silly shanties are indeed seaworthy.

“Lights … Camera … RRR! Music Videos by Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate:” Available at rockinronthefriendlypirate.com.

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

This article appears in Kids VT, November 2012.

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...