New CD Heaven's to Betsy available now!

Welcome to the website of Blackbeard’s Tea Party

Crazy folk tunes, rocked up sea shanties, fiddles and squeezeboxes, preposterous guitar noise, brass, synth bass and a feast of brutalised international hand percussion! Only one band can provide all of these things, and that band is folk-rock extravaganza, Blackbeard's Tea Party. Playing a variety of tunes, traditional English, Irish and occasionally Belgian, alongside original material and new arrangements of folk songs and sea shanties, all with a big, tasty, dramatic, danceable and totally unique sound.

We're available for gigs and ceilidhs at festivals, folk clubs, weddings, private events, pubs, parties and weird funerals.

The band is also available in a smaller, all acoustic format suitable for folk clubs and smaller events.

Have a look around at our music and pictures and stuff!