The Renaissance Faire Experience

"Renaissance Faires" were annual events celebrating the end of deadly winter and the spring rebirth of the lands and animals necessary to survival. Farmers displayed their early crops. Inn Keepers offered there specialty dishes. Craft people hawked their wares. Artists, Musicians, Jugglers, Actors, amused and entertained. It was a time of hope and promise; a time to dream..

Like the Faires of the 16th century, modern Faires offer a sensual feast of crafts, entertainment, exotic foods and drink, games, and above all, an opportunity for any person to actively participate in an historical reenactment. Leaving this fast paced century far behind, you will find no chrome and steel at Faire. Stages and booths are hand made from wood and burlap. Roofs are sod, shingle and frond. Instead of the boringly familiar, "Hi, how are you?" you will be greeted with "How now, good Lord and Lady, welcome" rather than Smashing Pumpkins or Garth Brooks. The sounds that lay background for this colorful cornucopia are lutes, flutes and handmade skin drums .

For the price of admission, you are encouraged to immerse yourself in the stark simplicity of the times; dressing of the period , speaking the olde English, and lending your good cheer to the pageantry. Hark, be bold! Take on the guise of a Renaissance figure - Be it Lord or Merchant, Peasant Farmer or Court Jester. Then stroll the spectacle of the market place in your new personae, delighting in the surge of strange sights and tantalizing smells. Make way for the royal procession, lest you loose your head to theQueen's Royal Guards, Barter with a merchant for fyne crafted wares. Indulge your appetite with succulent meats, vegetables and fruits washed down by hardy English ale or dark exotic coffee. Leer at the buxom maidens. Blush at the implications of the silver tongued scoundrel. Cheer on a dashing Knight. Rejoice in the ribald street performers. Eavesdrop on the gossip mongering Ladies In Waiting. Wager on which gypsy warms the portly Shire's sheets. For the price of admission you have bought excitement and escape. Use it well. And when exhausted from your revelry, use this renaissance faire site to find those same fine handmade crafts.