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You have been waiting all year and now the Portland Pirate Festival is here. This weekend, join your mates at Cathedral Park for live music, historical re-enactments, games, dancing and a play area for kids. Gates open at 10am. Adult tickets are $15 or only $12 if purchased in advance, kids are $8 at the gate or $6 in advance. Children under 2 years old are free.
For a little extra fun, organizers are attempting a Guinness World Record on Sunday for the most pirates gathered in one place. To participate, show up by 2pm on Sunday, dressed in full pirate-ware and check the event web site for details.
Saturday is also International Talk Like A Pirate Day, which was started by two men from Albany, Oregon. The ‘holiday’ is now an international phenomenon and has inspired things like having your Facebook page presented to you in pirate as the default language.
For more on the festival in Portland, visit the official web page. For more on International Talk Like A Pirate Day, click here.
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As the company the provided video certification to the Portland Pirate Festival, sponsors and the TV show coverage for the event that includes notification to media outlets such as local news groups that needed official counts, the Portland Pirate Festival and Dark Wing Productions are proud to announce that we made a new World's Record for "The Most Pirates Gathered in one Place". Germany had 1140 in June of '07, British had 1460 in May '09 and we now have the record at 1651 set Sept. 20. For more information, you can go to http://www.PortlandPirateFestival.com or http://www.DarkWingProductions.com. Dennis Gleason, DWP
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