"X MARKS THE SPOT"
X Marks the Spot is a hilarious 30-45 minute skit performed by
the Renaissance music duo, A Reasonable Facsimile. With audience
interaction, Anne & Rob Burns portray two old salts attempting
an expedition for buried treasure. Musical interludes are played
on copies of Renaissance instruments. Rob and Anne set sail in search
of the treasure of Captain No-Beard, "the youngest pirate ever
to sail the seas." The excursion goes from bad to worse as
the ship encounters heavy weather, ordnance failure, crew incompetence
and mutiny. The jokes go from silly to ridiculous before the unusual
treasure is finally found. X Marks the Spot has been seen at the
Michigan Renaissance Festival and the South Haven Tall Ships Festival.
NEW! (Available beginning November
2009)
“WEEVILS: THEY'RE
NOT JUST FOR BREAKFAST ANYMORE”

A Concert for Sailors and Landlubbers
The
title of this music program was inspired by infested ship's biscuits
in the tales of Horatio Hornblower, Jacky "Bloody Jack"
Faber, Jim Hawkins, Jack Aubrey, Jack Sparrow, and other swashbuckling
fictional seafarers. Anne and Rob Burns feature songs mentioned
in the stories plus more tunes from the changing times that have
launched so many imaginative books and films–the Golden Age
of Piracy, the American Revolution, and the heyday of the British
Royal Navy. Join us for an hour of rollicking, rolling music of
the high seas and lowlands that will shake the weevils right out
of your hardtack!
"'Don't you know that in the Navy you must
always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha!'"
(Jack Aubrey in The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian