This is an interactive performance for children, with storytelling and audience participation. We will introduce you to the instruments of the Tudor period and perform music by Antony Holborne and Thomas Forde. You are invited to come suitably attired for life at sea as a Sea-Dog pirate, and be prepared to dance, sing and be merry!

Captain Digorie Piper was a real Tudor pirate. The “Sea-Dogs” were a group of privateers employed by Queen Elizabeth I to raid and pillage the Spanish fleet. The most important crew members on any pirate ship were, of course, the shanty men and musicians. Join our motley crew of Elizabethan pirates who will introduce you to their strange Tudor instruments, and invite to you sing, dance, gambol and shake the rhythms of our mighty music as we unfold the story of Captain Digorie Piper.