It was the heart that kicked the ass out of Saturday of the inaugural weekend of this new faire. Always a challenge to any event (even more than rain in many cases), high heat combined with opening on a holiday weekend where people already had many events to choose from came together to cause painfully [...]
I am working on several short essays on the composition of Irish forces and soldiery for Saint Patrick’s since we are beginning to include the more militaristic aspects of the late sixteenth century Irish. Here is a piece I put together on the use of the Musket in Ireland: [...]
By Richard F. Townsend, Robert V. Sharp, Garrick Alan Bailey, Art Institute of Chicago
Overview: [...]
The ordinary Irish foot soldiers, made up partly of "bonnachts", or Irish mercenaries maintained by the various nobles, and partly of free peasantry called out to fight. The bonnachts might sometimes be dressed like the gallowglasses, or else like the rising-out, as the peasants were called; that is, no armour, simply the traditional Irish dress [...]
For anyone who doesn’t know, my husband Chris and I won a photo contest that Renaissance Magazine sponsored in 2008. We won first place! Our prize was a $1500 credit to Debbie’s Creative Costumes (owned by Debbie La Franchi). It has been one year since we won the contest, and we still don’t have [...]
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA – This was our first excursion to this “small” faire. The first thing that struck me was twofold when we arrived around noon on Saturday: the first was that it was actually good English weather (ok, so one of our compatriots is from the East Bay and was commenting [...]
Ed’s Note: This is Mary Miller’s first review posting, and we’ll looking forward to getting many more as time goes by.
Casa de Fruta, Hollister, CA – So we arrived late in the morning to this annual six week faire held about 6 miles outside of Hollister (though the event is more often associated with Gilroy, [...]
The Symposium is heading to the Central Valley
Academics, students of theater, renaissance enthusiasts, and actors are invited to this interdisciplinary conference aimed at bringing together all those interested [...]
By DDuck1129
As you drive up the road you could feel the magic returning to the Park, you felt the energy, you felt the anticipation, you traveled back into the past. The Magic has returned to the Park in Anderson with the return of the Shasta Highlands Renaissance Faire. After the absence in 2006 the Faire is [...]
By Rev.J.R.Norris III*We set off early in the day to get to our next fair. Ione (The Medieval harvest festival held on November the 3 & 4^th ), a little town outside of Sacramento. The fair has been going for a couple years now and is a perfect end to the seasons of fairs, as [...]
