Depending on the programs purpose and musical selection,The Rogues appear attired in either 18th or 19th Century
clothng of the two periods,adding to the color
Captain Kidd, Live!
A confessional ballad meant to entertain, tell a story and educate one on life lessons, this song came to New England in the early 1700s with English settlers and was despised by ministers. Appearing in an 1813 broadside, it claims to be the warning words of a dying Kidd who began as a servant of the King, killed a crewmember (accident or mutiny?), was arrested as a pirate in Boston and hanged in London 1701 (apparently, he mounted a weak defense). The tune appeared on an unsigned 1790 manuscript in Massachusetts and the ballad is believed to have been the basis for Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island.” Recorded live in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, UK in 2004.
