09/21/2026
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU! 🏴☠️⚓🏴☠️
As the owner and producer of the Galveston Pirate Festival, I am overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who helped make this year’s Galveston Pirate Festival Week such an incredible success. This event was bigger, stronger, and more successful than last year and that would not have been possible without the amazing community that embraced it.
To every patron who purchased a ticket, attended an event, dressed in pirate attire, brought your family, shared our posts, invited your friends, or simply helped spread the word: thank you. You are the reason we do this. Seeing so many smiling faces, creative costumes, families making memories, and pirates filling Galveston with excitement made every long day and late night worthwhile.
To our generous sponsors and community partners: thank you for believing in this festival and helping us bring the vision to life. Your support allowed us to create a full week of activities that celebrated Galveston’s history, businesses, culture, and unmistakable pirate spirit. We are incredibly grateful for your trust and partnership.
Thank you to our participating venues and local businesses for opening your doors and helping Pirate Festival Week reach across the island. Every gathering, activity, presentation, performance, and special event added something unique to the week. This festival is about more than one day it is about bringing people together, supporting local businesses, attracting visitors, and creating an experience that belongs to Galveston.
To our performers, presenters, entertainers, pirate crews, vendors, artists, makers, photographers, production teams, staff members, and volunteers: thank you for sharing your talents, energy, time, and passion with us. You created the atmosphere, brought the characters to life, welcomed our guests, and helped keep everything moving. So much work happens behind the scenes, and I want you to know that your efforts were seen and deeply appreciated.
I also want to thank Moody Gardens for providing a wonderful home for our main festival day and for helping us welcome pirates and families from near and far.
Most importantly, thank you to the Galveston community. Your enthusiasm has helped transform an idea into a growing annual celebration. Watching the Galveston Pirate Festival become bigger and more successful than last year has been an emotional and rewarding experience for me. Growth does not happen by accident it happens because people choose to believe in something, support it, and become part of it.
As the owner of the Galveston Pirate Festival, I take tremendous pride in what we accomplished together. There were countless hours of planning, coordinating, creating, promoting, problem-solving, and preparing but when I looked around and saw our community celebrating together, I knew it was all worth it.
This festival belongs to every person who supported it.
Whether you sponsored the event, bought a ticket, volunteered, performed, set up a booth, hosted an activity, shared a post, told a friend, traveled to Galveston, or cheered us on from the sidelines you helped make this success possible.
Thank you for believing in the Galveston Pirate Festival. Thank you for supporting local events. Thank you for helping us grow. And thank you for giving me the opportunity to create something that brings so much joy, energy, and excitement to the island I love.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for making this year unforgettable. We made Galveston Pirate Festival Week bigger and better than ever and this is only the beginning.
With sincere gratitude,
Johnny Steverson
Owner & Producer
Galveston Pirate Festival
🏴☠️ Until our ships meet again thank you, Galveston! 🏴☠️
