Here’s the Entertainment Line up for our 2026 Season

All Weekends.

Demonstrations of archery and bow making, as well as a daily archery tournament.

Performing May 16th-17th, May 23rd-24th, May 30th-31st, June 6th-7th.

Better Entertainment Through Poor Life Choices; a tour of vaudeville variety, nerdistry, and escalation.

Performing May 16th-17th, June 6th-7th.
Renaissance garb and lively ballads from a master musical storyteller!

Performing May 9th-10th, May 16th-17th.

Welcome to Bard City! Bard City is a comedy sword and sorcery band that sings about the power of friendship (and sometimes violence).

Performing All Weekends.

Fine knights and noble steeds demonstrating knightly skills.

Performing May 23rd-24th.

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. 

Performing May 9th-10th.

Janie and Rob singing songs culled from maritime traditions old and new. Music, merriment and a little mayhem.

Performing May 9th-10th, May 16th-17th, May 23rd-24th.

Family friendly comedy, circus stunts, and performing rescue dogs.

Performing May 16th-17th & May 23rd-24th.

Cyanwoode is an instrumental duo infusing fantasy-tavern flair into Celtic and Irish traditional music as well as original, new arrangements of video game music favorites. Be transported as Cyanwoode sets the scene with their ambient, magical arrangements of VGM favorites and Celtic and Irish traditional music on hammered dulcimer and Irish whistle.

Performing All Weekends.

Mind-blowing sleight-of-hand and street swindles and cons!

Performing May 9th-10th, May 30th-31st.

Euterpea Fantasy Flute is an ethereal exploration of sound, featuring classical flute, low flutes, and world flutes with effects pedals to create soundscapes inspired by history, mythology, and magic.

Performing May 9th-10th, May 16th-17th, May 30th-31st, June 6th-7th.

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!

Performing May 16th-17th, May 30th-31st.

Delivered from the ages of old, Johnny Strum carries a mystical quality, providing a strong sense of self to captivate his audience. This engaging character, armed with guitar and quick wit, is found rousing the crowd with a song in a pub, delivering a lovely serenade to a couple along the pathway, or bringing a magical tale to delight the little ones.

Performing May 9th-10th, May 16th-17th, May 23rd-24th, May 30th-31st.

Celtic Harpyr: Folk harp tunes and songs of Celtic lands.

Performing May 11 – June 2

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.

Performing May 9th-10th, May 30th-31st, June 6th-7th.

Wandering Minstrel, one-man medieval band, and bootless gangrel.

Performing All Weekends.

Demonstrations of armed combat.

Performing May 9th-10th, May 23rd-24th.

The Pilgrims of Deep Run bring blazing Celtic trad tunes and pub songs you can sing, shout, and dance along to. Best enjoyed with mug in hand!.

Performing June 6th-7th.

Go on a musical journey with Rover’s Way. This husband and wife duo are
passionate performers of traditional and original music that span the winding roads and rolling seas. From rousing pub tunes to ballads charged with emotion, these wandering bards will have you tapping your toes and raising your glasses.

Sebastian the Singing Pirate performs the very finest of sea shanties and Irish pub music to bring joy, merriment, and a bit of turtle based buffoonery to any festival he travels to. No matter the time or the place, Sebastian stands ready with a song for any occasion!

Performing May 16th-17th.

With Celtic roots, “Shake, Rattle, and Rogue,” will entertain you with the traditional songs you know and love with some fun surprises in the mix too!

Performing May 30th-31st.

High energy celtic music played by four real life siblings, faire fan favorite since
2015.

Performing May 9th-10th, May 16th-17th.

Motivational one woman stunt show performing with traditional and innovative sideshow stunts. Barbed wire hula hooping, sword swallowing, and human cutting board to name a few. Crowd interactive and family friendly.

Performing May 30th-31st, June 6th-7th.

Celebrate the ridiculous with the Gwendolyn Show — an interactive comedy story telling show!

Performing May 23rd-24th.

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.

Performing All Weekends

Exciting pipes and drums performed by World Class musicians with the best set of knees this side of the River Tweed.

Performing June 6th-7th. Thistledown is a new DC-area folk band specializing in songs that transport their audience to a land of of fairy tales and Arthurian legends.

Performing May 9th-10th, May 23rd-24th, May 30th-31st, June 6th-7th.

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.

Performing May 30th-31st.

Tower Green is a high energy folk ensemble playing instrumental, dance
and vocal music from the Medieval and Renaissance eras They breathe life into amazing period music played on modern and period instruments,including hurdy gurdy.

Performing May 23rd-24th, May 30th-31st, June 6th-7th.

Babes. Bodices. Blades. Need we say more?
Three smokin’ hot swordswomen swashbuckle their way through Shakespeare using daring swordplay, witty repartee, and a naughty sense of humor—all in an interactive, fast-paced show that will keep you on the edge of your seat!