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NK & the Sea

Please join the North Kingstown Arts Council and Tim Cranston’s Swamptown Enterprises for NK & the Sea, "A Celebration of the Songs of the Sea and the Hale and Hearty Men Who Sang Them," today, July 23, 2011, from 2 - 4 p.m. at Smith’s Castle.

(Rain Location: Cold Spring Community Center)

The afternoon will feature music from groups that specialize in ancient sea shanties and a return engagement by the fabled pirate cabal “The Free Men of the Sea."  

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The event will be emceed by local historian Tim Cranston, playing the role of RI Colonial Governor Samuel Cranston, who had a connection to the pirate/privateering economy of the Narragansett Bay in the late 1600s – early 1700s.

For more information about this event please visit: www.NKArtsCouncil.org or contact Tim Cranston at swamptown@msn.com.

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