Here’s our 2024 Entertainment Line up
Adamo Ignis
Performing May 11th – 12th.
Adamo Ignis is Latin for “fall in love with flame” which is what you’ll be doing when you watch this show. The passion of dance, the danger of fire, and many other stunts and tricks will have you jumping out of your seat as she leaps into your heart.
Archery Through the Ages
All Weekends.
Demonstrations of archery and bow making, as well as a daily archery tournament.
Bad Idea Entertainment
Performing May 11th – June 2nd.
Better entertainment through poor life choices. An exploration of bad ideas through sideshow, magic, and circus.
Blue Run Jousting Troupe
Performing All Weekends.
Fine knights and noble steeds demonstrating knightly skills.
Bone & String
Performing June 1st – 9th.
Bone & String mixes traditional music and songs of the sea with stories and banter to get crowds laughing, clapping and joining in. You might even learn something! But you’re bound to have fun.
Circus Stella
Performing May 25-June 9.
Circus Stella presents rope-walking, balancing, juggling, and performing rescue dogs.
Dash Rippington’s Dangerously Stupid Show
Performing May 18th & 26th, June 8th & 9th.
Friends and Enemies are both cordially invited to watch as Guinness World Record holder Dash Rippington performs one Dangerously Stupid act after another for your entertainment. From painful animal traps to the ancient (and potentially lethal) art of sword swallowing… This show is NOT to be missed.
Dinty the Moor
Performing All Weekends.
Magic! Historical con games and swindles, multilingual mindreadin g! Diego Natividad de la Estafa, aka “Dinty, the Moor” brings comedy, magic, mentalism and chicanery back to the shire.
Fletcher Moone & the Culture of Beer
Performing All Weekends.
Fletcher Moone, tavernkeeper, knows a lot about beer. And he’s going to tell you all about it. In song.
The Culture of Beer is a passionate, informative, and entertaining show presented in song and story, about the impact of libation on humanity. Catch this show daily at the Barleycorn Tavern. (rated PG13). Cheers!
Kathy Harkness, Celtic Harper
Performing May 11th – 26th.
Celtic Harpyr: Folk harp tunes and songs of Celtic lands.
Knightwings
Performing All Weekends.
Knightwings Birds of Prey is a traveling free flight Birds of Prey show that has been entertaining and educating thousands of people for over 20 years.
Maugorn The Stray
Performing May 11th & 12th, May 18th & 19th, June 1st – 2nd, June 8th & 9th.
Wandering Minstrel, one-man medieval band, and bootless gangrel.
Order of the Marshal
Performing May 20th & 21st, May 27th & 28th, June 3rd & 4th.
Demonstrations of armed combat.
Shanty Sing
All Weekends. Shanties are work songs sung on boat ship to pass the time and help keep a work rhythm. We won’t make you work, but you can sing along!
Sibling Ryvalrie
Performing May 11th & 12th, May 18th & 19th, May 25th & 26th.
A troupe of talented siblings perform traditional tunes, song and dance.
The Gwendolyn Show
Performing June 1st – 2nd, June 8th & 9th.
Gwendolyn Steele is making her way in the world solo. What kind of trouble can she get into? Join in as Gwendolyn explores life, the universe, and how to get a date!
The Pyrates Royale
Performing June 8th & 9th.
Get a blast from the past as a band of Pyrates reunite to serenade you with songs of the sea…drinking…other things that a pyrate is wont to get up to.
The Rogues
Performing All Weekends
Exciting pipes and drums performed by World Class musicians with the best set of knees this side of the River Tweed.
Token Entertainment
Performing All Weekends.
Griffon DuMonde and Rhee are two normal ordinary travelers come to exotic foreign England to partake of the quaint local customs of the natives and add a little color to the Festival.
Tower Green
Performing May 18th – 19th.
Traditional and original music on a variety of modern and period instruments.
Vixens en Garde
Performing May 11th & 12th, May 18th & 19th.
An all-female fight company specializing in sword-fighting & Shakespeare; dedicated to being models of feminine strength & ability.
We May Be Minstrels
Performing June 1st & 2nd.
An a cappella harmony group, featuring songs written in the 17th and 16th centuries.
Witch Trial
Performing May 11th & 12th, May 18th & 19th.
Making Fun of Horrible History!
Join famed tragedian Ned Alleyn, as he takes a stab at comedy by flipping the script on the classic Witch Trial! The atrocious will become amusing, the rotten, risible, and the terrible will tickle your ribs – as the vicious mob persecutes an innocent to roars and howls of laughter! Presented by SAG-AFTRA actor Chris Davis (as seen on HBO’s “Veep”), celebrating 35 Years of Festival Performance!
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