Renaissance Festivals in Oregon

Ren-Faires Bring Elizabethian Characters and Fanciful Faeries

May 22, 2008

Renaissance Faires are fantasy events brough to life in recreated 16th Century Villages. Stoll the market lanes with medieval characters and winged faeries.

Summer brings Renaissance festivals to Oregon. Summer is a great season to stroll the lanes of a theme festival that goes that to an era hundreds of years ago. Ren-faires are usually created around the concept of a 16th Century village marketplace.

Ren-Faires and Faerie Festivals offer a chance for a leisurely day, bringing imagination to life. Stroll the lanes of Renaissance villages in recreated marketplaces from 16th Century Englnd.

Costumed characters portray nobility, kings, queens, peasants, knights, wenches and faeries. Visitors often dress in their best medieval garb and interact with the villagers on the lanes

Renaissance festivals in Oregon include the Summer Solstice Medieval Fete, Faire by the Sea, Faerieworlds Festival and Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire.

Faerieworlds Festival

Faerieworlds three day festival celebrates the little people among us. There are themes for each day of the weekend. Themes are Friday for Good Faeries, Saturday for Bad Faeries and Sunday is family day when kids get in free. At 10 pm on Friday and Saturday the is a light show on the main stage. Friday night features Woodland - with World of Froud Good Faeries Lightshow. On Saturday night Qntal - Germany - with Froud Bad Faeries Lightshow.

Entertainmers at this mythic music festival include Tricky Pixie, Spiral Dance Estampie - Germany, Trillian Green, Priscilla Hernandez - from Barcelona Spain, Woodland, The Wicker Men, Gaia Consort, Kan'Nal, Zilla, Qntal, Glenn Falkenberg, Lunar Fire - featuring members of Kan'Nal, Estampie - Medieval Band from German.

In keeping with the spirit of the faeries, Faeriesworlds is a ecologically sustainable event, using Green electrical power, soy based inks and organic foods.

Faerieworld invites you to enter the magical realm of winged fairies. Fantasy artists, music, entertainment and arts and crafts draw fairy fans from around the globe. to don their best winged fairy garb and join in the magic. Tickets can now be purchased on line. Weekend pass is $60 for adults. There are also daily passes and kids passes.

Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire

Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire is just 15 miles and 500 years away from downtown Corvallis. Enchantment awaits as jousting knights and noble steeds battle. Stroll medieval lanes along with minstrels, troubadours, jugglers, dancers and bards. Over 125 artisan stalls and 1,000 costumed players fill the lanes of the recreated medieval village. This educational interactive adventure welcomes families and children to explore this historical Shakespearean era. The era Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I is set in the Renaissance years of 1558 to 1603.

Village lanes have names like Urchone's Alley, Goose Hill Way, Friar Tuck's Forest and Wallows Village Lane. Each lane has its own unique bland of Artisans, Entertainments and Delights. Village merchants display and sell medieval style ware, costumes, jewelry and arts. Fair food can be eaten without utensils, such as sausage on a stick, turkey legs and sweet corn. General admission Adults $9, Seniors and children $5. Children 5 and under free.

Summer Solstice Medieval Fete

Faire by the Sea - Brookings / Harbor Renaissance Fest

Information is subject to change. See the festival website for additional information.

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