PERFORMANCES
ADAM REID
Location: Isle of Misfits
Bawdy Juggler Show, Juggling School, storyteller, and actor, Adam Reid is sure to impress. Come watch juggling feats not seen this side of the Atlantic since the Dark Ages. Laugh, sit in awe and horror, and join the mirth. (Viewer discretion is advised).
B.P.S. 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.
BOGTROTTER’S UNION
Location: Fidler's Green
Bogtrotters Union is a Las Vegas based, five – piece Americana band. Founded in 2012, BTU has seen a few line – up changes, as well as changes to their sound, which ranges from varieties of folk and roots music, to swing, jazz, Ska and punk rock.
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!
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.
JOUST
Location: Field of Honor
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.
The Seattle Knights combine equestrian thrills, high-energy acting, and choreographed stage combat using real weapons and armor.
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’
PROFESSOR SLAYWOOD, THE MAGIC OF WILL
Location: Isle of Misfits
Enter a world of Magic and Mayhem! If you are still waiting on you OWL or are a youth looking to experience the Magic of a Wizards World then come to Professor Slaywoods Magic for Mondains, where YOU will experience Magical creatures, See Charms and hexes that work and possibly leave with your very own Wand!
William Bradshaw is a Rising Star in the magic world. With over a dozen awards to his name, his Renaissance festival show has been seen all around the country including Minnesota, Texas, Colorado and China. His Magic School show introduces families into the world of magic studies including introduction to Charms, Care of Magical Beasts, and Defense against dark magic. Fun for the entire family see why people can’t get enough of the Magic of Will.
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 AML TRIO
Location: Royal Pub & Stirling Stage
The AML Trio are a hard strumming, foot stomping Celtic folk band from the Oregon Coast. With a show from the trio of Adams, Martin & Linahon you’ll be treated to classic melodies and vocal harmonies telling tales of ancient lands and unforgotten glories accompanied by a number of lively traditional instruments. Irish bouzouki, tin whistle, bodhran drum, mandolin and more set the stage for stories of the Celtic nations. Hear crowd favorites, songs of the Irish Rising and the Scottish Highlands, sea shanties and folk tunes new and old. Come out and join us for a unique and wildly entertaining performance!
THE BARBER
Location: Hawick Village
his 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 FENIANS
Location: Fiddler's Green
For over three decades, The Fenians have delivered their potent mix of traditional Irish folk and rock music all across the USA and Ireland. With an ever-expanding set of original creations, as well as contemporary and traditional tunes plucked from the panoply of the genre, these five lads and one lassie put on a live show that is second to none. Through their songs and stories, you’ll see why they’ve been best described as having “A Celtic Heart with a Rock & Roll Soul!”
THE PLOUGHBOYS
Location: Fiddler's Green
The Ploughboys are a hard-working, well-established, thoroughly professional Celtic band, located in Southern California.
The melodic virtuosity and vocals of legendary Southern California fiddle player Aubrey Richmond entwine with the lead vocals and rhythms of Mark Romano on guitar. John Urban on stand up bass provides the solid musical foundation, while Taylor Murphy on drums provides the driving beat, that keeps hands clapping, toes tapping, and feet stamping! Intricate vocal harmonies underpin songs and stories from the Gaelic tradition, mixed with fresh, original Celtic-themed tunes and songs that you’ll long remember.
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.”