PERFORMANCES
ADAM REID
Location: Isle of Misfits
Adam Reid’s Juggling School is a dynamic, hands-on learning environment focused on teaching the art and joy of juggling to people of all ages and skill levels. Known for its welcoming atmosphere and upbeat energy, the school blends skilled instruction with a playful, encouraging vibe that helps students feel confident as they learn new techniques.
Participants can expect:
- Clear, step-by-step guidance from experienced jugglers.
- A focus on building coordination, rhythm, and confidence.
- A supportive space that celebrates progress—big or small.
- A mix of fun warm‑ups, skill drills, and creative juggling challenges.
Whether someone is picking up juggling for the first time or refining advanced tricks, Adam Reid’s Juggling School offers an engaging, high‑spirited experience that makes learning both accessible and entertaining.
BARBER SURGEON
Location: Hawick Village
This Barber-Surgeon set up shop over 25 years ago and is still practicing medicine, getting his success rate to almost 50 percent! (That is really good for someone who had no schooling and operates with very little rules or oversight.) Drop in with your ailments or wounds and see if he can fix them, for a price! Or just stop by for a bloodletting and a haircut. Know the four Humors? Understand how the stars govern the body? Learn about medicine from his stories and handouts; he is always looking out for Apprentices.
THE BIRDMAN
Location: Pirates Port
Presenting the nation’s top bird show! 10-foot wingspan condors, colorful macaws, prehistoric hornbills and graceful cranes can be enjoyed during this natural behavior-based show. Joe Krathwohl known as “The Birdman®” is known as the #1 choice in avian entertainment. Forty years of experience helps Joe to create a uniquely intimate and positive reinforcement-based show which takes you on a journey never before experienced in a portable show. What sets The Birdman apart from other zoo bird shows is his ability to present a larger show yet in portable form and deliver unique mix of spectacular bird stunts coordinated with education-filled storytelling. This show is entertaining, educational, informative, and spectacular all while supporting habitat preservation and condor conservation. This 35+-minute feathered extravaganza is a must-see show!
THE BLACKSMITH
Presenting Ramon Fagundo, artist, blacksmith and craftsman. Bringing over 20 years experience with him and a deep passion for history and education, his shows promise to be top level edu-tainment with quality blacksmithing.
B.P.J. MAGIC & VARIETY SHOW
Location: Isle of Misfits
Come enjoy comedy, magic, and surprises. Try your hand at magic and become an assistant, or watch in awe as true magic is performed before your eyes. B.P.S. Magic and Variety is a family show for all ages.
CAPTAIN’S CHALLENGE
Location: Captain's Challenge
Come and cheer on your favorite captain, Dalton, Graves, Diego, or Gunner, in this exciting stunt show! Watch as your captain competes in piratical games, and daring fights to become the new Pirate Lord. But, beware the East India Trading Company! You never know when they may show up! Grab a pint, and join your shipmates at the Captain’s Challenge stage for rivalry, revelry, and good old fashioned family fun! Three shows a day, with the last show extended for more extravagance, and adventure.
This show includes professional stunts, sword fighting, dancers, pyro, and original music. The Captain’s Challenge Brought to you by Imagine Nation Productions. Enjoy the adventure!
DARBY O'GILL
Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a rollicking, bawdy Irish pub and stage-show band known for energetic music, comedic banter, and Gaelic stage personas.
GALLOWS HUMOR
Gallows Humor is a Romani-themed macabre performance band that blends dark music, theatrical storytelling, folklore, and grim humor. Performing as strigoi characters, the band draws inspiration from Romani legends, cultural history, and current events affecting Romani communities.
Through haunting sound, supernatural imagery, and immersive character work, Gallows Humor brings old stories into conversation with modern realities. Their performances balance eerie atmosphere with wit, creating an experience that is theatrical, culturally rooted, and distinctly their own.
Gallows Humor has performed at Renaissance faires throughout California and beyond, including the Koroneburg Renaissance Festival, London Bridge Renaissance Faire, Two Rivers Renaissance Faire, Escondido Renaissance Faire, Lompoc Renaissance Faire, and the Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival in Las Vegas to name a few.
THE GLENSIDERS
With a hard strumming and foot stomping style, The Glensiders bring a lively brand of Celtic music from western Oregon. Sing along as highland ballads, rebel songs and sea shanties of the Celtic nations are brought to life with energetic and rowdy choruses, coupled with popular folk tunes and music of their own making. Traditional instruments like the Irish Bouzouki and Bodhran drum ring out beside vocals and harmonies to inspire an air of the past brought into the present with gusto. Join us for a show you won’t want to miss!
JEROME HILL
Location: Stirling Stage, Roaming performer
King of Fools! A naturally roaming and rambling man of magic, Jerome Hill spreads laughter and wonder everywhere he goes with his close-up interactive illusions, juggling skills, and off-the-cuff comedic timing!
JOHANN THE PAPERMAKER
Location: Hawick Village
Johann the Papermaker taught middle school art for 32 years before retiring. Then the real fun began as Johann learned more about a simple, taken for granted object: paper. When and where did humanity decide to record ideas outside of speaking? Stop by for a demonstration on how paper is made and all the way through the nitty gritty details of what led up to its discovery in 106 CE by Ts’ai Lun during the Han Dynasty. Will you have time to make some yourself? That’s up to you and the crowds.
MISTRESS OF MELODY
Location: Stirling Stage
Samantha, the Mistress of Melody, has been performing Celtic music at Renaissance Faires for over ten years. With her voice, harp, and her bouzouki she shares a combination of original songs and unique arrangements of traditional tunes drawing inspiration from genres including Irish folk, classical, musical theatre, Americana, and jazz. Samantha has a degree in Music Composition from Brigham Young University and her arrangements for harp have received a feature in the Irish Music Magazine. Her music can be found online anywhere music is streamed under the name ‘Mistress of Melody’
MYSTO THE MAGICIAN
Mysto The Magician transports audiences to simpler times of joy, wonder, amazement and old-fashioned FUN! Join him for a jaw-dropping good time!
SEATTLE KNIGHTS
"With equestrian thrills and high-octane choreographed stage combat using real weapons, the Seattle Knights bring you the best of medieval history and fantasy."
"Knights in shining armor salute their opponents with lance and shield, and send their warhorses thundering down the list; they meet with a crash that fills the arena, and the audience leaps to its feet with a roar."
"On the field of combat, armored knights charge each other with weapons ready. With a clash of steel, they battle for honor and glory, swords blurring in a flurry of speed and skill that ends only when one of them hits the ground or yields."
SISTERS OF CYBELE
Location: Captain's Challenge
Do you like fire? What of dancing? Come witness a fire show with dancing that will surely shock any audience. Catch The Sisters Of Cybele and let them WOW you with a breathtaking show. This show is welcome to all ages.
SPORTIVE TRICKS
Location: Fiddler’s Green, Royal Pub
The Southern California folk band Sportive Tricks brings you Celtic with a Kick. From time-honored sing-alongs to sea chanteys to traditional tunes with a twist to original songs, the seven members of Tricks each bring their voices, instrumental talents, experience, and energy for a foot-tapping good time. Sportive Tricks plays year-round at festivals, historical re-enactment events, and pub shows.
SWAGGER
Location: Fiddler's Green
Swagger is a Premier Irish Rock band based out of Park City, Utah. The band has been honing their original brand of Celtic music at festivals and concert halls across the United States since 2007. Well known for their highenergy stage performances and catchy original lyrics, the band has amassed loyal fans eager to hear more. Swagger’s music is the expected Irish celebration of drink, mischief, and music, which also dares to explore oppression and take an emigrant’s perspective on the virtues and vices of the Irish-American culture.
Don’t miss an opportunity to see this amazing band live ! ! !
THE WHISKEY BARDS
Location: Royal Pub, Fiddler’s Green
The Whiskey Bards are a group of friends who have joined together to pursue the bardic arts of times past … and a bit of the new. Our performances include our own arrangements of traditional folk songs, sea shanties, and ballads as well as original compositions in the bardic idiom. Yes – we used idiom in a sentence!
With over 20 years working together as a band, we have made a few changes along the way. This year you’ll see a few new faces and hear some new songs. The intimate, cabaret styling and ad hoc humor remains strong at the core of who we are.
WISH WAGON
Location: Isle of Misfits
With robust imagination and a solid understanding of the power of positive thinking and the law of attraction, Penelope V. Pendragon “edu-tains” children (of all ages) with Seussian style and Faery flair.
“Attitude is everything!” she explains with passion,“It determines whether you are happy or sad, joyful or mad… whether life is good or bad. Attitude is what directs your boat… It keeps you and your boat, afloat.”
Her whimsical ways and amazing acronyms keep both children and adults entertained. She educates on Feeding Faeries (positive thinking), Starving Goblins (negative thinking) and how to get WiSHes to come true. “If I can teach the children HOW to think vs. WHAT to think, it will change the future and we will have peace in this world.”
WOLDSHAGER HEXENBRUT LV
Location: Stirling Stage
With our humble beginnings on December 30, 2021, our founder, Nancy Furlong, created the first and only Official Las Vegas-based Dance Troupe representing The Mother Troupe from Germany, Wolfshäger Hexenbrut.
We strive to promote education and Community support for coexistence among all paths. So, with joy and high hopes. Toe tapping and broom swishing, and a cast of dancers, we aim to bring the fun and enjoyment of magical, theatrical dance to the community.