Feb. 21, 2026

History, Fantasy, Fun at the 34th Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

History, Fantasy, Fun at the 34th Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

A Royal Invitation: History, Fantasy, and Fun Await at the 34th Annual Florida Renaissance Festival Season 20, Episode 24 of The Adventures of Pipeman. Step Through the Gates to a Realm of Adventure, Fantasy, and Timeless Fun Pipeman Radio has a...

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Season 20

A Royal Invitation: History, Fantasy, and Fun Await at the 34th Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

Season 20, Episode 24 of The Adventures of Pipeman. 

Step Through the Gates to a Realm of Adventure, Fantasy, and Timeless Fun Pipeman Radio has a chat with Artistic Director Chris Leidenfrost

The trumpets sound, the flags fly, and the call to revelry begins anew in South Florida! The 34th Annual Florida Renaissance Festival rides into Quiet Waters Park once again, inviting all to feast, frolic, and experience the magic of the Renaissance era. From February 7 to March 29, 2026, adventurers of all ages can step beyond the gates and into a world of knights, nobles, and nonstop fun across eight themed weekends. 

Step into the year 1587, where excitement surges through the village of Kimmendale as the Royal Court of King Robert Rivera returns for its grand annual festival. This year’s celebration carries special meaning: all gather to witness the handfasting of Prince Aaron of Veridian and Princess Katla Svartulff of Stalgaard. But even as the joyful ceremony approaches, shadows creep in…

Produced by Bobby Rodriguez Productions, the nationally acclaimed event invites families to immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and tastes of the 16th century. “Whether feasting on turkey legs, cheering for jousting knights, shopping artisan crafts, or mingling with mystical characters – visitors can expect a whimsical escape where history and fantasy collide—and every weekend tells a new story,” said Festival Producer, Bobby Rodriguez.

For tickets and more information visit: www.ren-fest.com; Find us on Facebook or follow @FlaRenFest on Twitter and Instagram, and @fl_renfest on Tik Tok. Please reach us the traditional method at 954-776-1642.

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Hey, you love them too, censure.

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I'm w for see y for you, Young Rodway.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four cy Radio. And I'm very excited about

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our next guest because he's part of one of my

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favorite things to do in life, and he is the

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artistic director of the Florida Raissance Festival, which I've been

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going every year since I've moved to Florida. But I've

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been going to a Renfest every year since nineteen eighty.

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So let's welcome to the show. Chris Leidenfrost. How are

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you hello, pipe Man?

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How are you sir?

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I'm doing great thirty fourth annual Florida Raissance Festival. That's

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like unbelievable that it's been going on that long.

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It is amazing. It is one of the longest running

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shows in the country.

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There's a couple letter ahead of us, but our producer,

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Bobby Rodriguez, he's been putting the show together now going

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to our thirty fourth year.

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It's pretty amazing.

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That is pretty cool. So tell us you're in your

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costume shop there. Tell us a little bit about the

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behind the scenes of the Florida Rosans Festival.

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Well, you know, it's interesting we have we're pretty much

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even though we're only open for weekends in February and March,

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we are a year round production company. You know, as

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soon as we start to take the festival down, our admin,

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our creative team, our production team, we're back in the

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office talking about the next season. So right now we're

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in our mobile trailer. I've got my amazing wardrobe assistant,

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Zellie behind us in the shot. Actually she's busy working

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on costumes. We have a cast of around seventy people

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and that's just our cast.

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That doesn't include all our independent acts.

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So you know, we have a homegrown cast here that

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we've been growing now for the last couple you know. Well,

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we have people who been here since the beginning for

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all thirty fourth these seasons. Shout out to Marie and

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McIntyre who's been our cheesemonger now and other characters for

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thirty four years.

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But also a new, larger cast.

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We have some incredibly young performers who are making their

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Renaissance Festival debut this year. But all of the wardrobe

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that goes on them is on the recks behind me

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right now.

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Nice, I dig it, and you know, I am the

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type of person that when I go to the Resance Festival,

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like some people, they take their time, they leave early,

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I think. And I was just telling somebody this weekend,

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the best times are when right before it opens and

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opening the gates and at the end. So how could

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you miss those two things? Go there for the whole day.

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Yeah, I mean you're people. You know.

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The ticket price gets you in from when we open

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our gates at ten two when we close our gates

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at sunset, and I mean there's ongoing entertainment all day.

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Our vendors.

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We have over one hundred artisans and vendors selling all

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sorts of everything from gourmet cheeses to beautiful garments and

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everything in between. Swords and jewelry and pirate flags and

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pirate hats and you know, just about anything you could

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hope to find at a festival, we've got here.

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And again it's ongoing all day.

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So you know, if you get here early, you can

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pack in as much shopping and entertainment as you can.

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And I definitely think people should get like season passes

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because I have never been able to do everything what

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I'm supposed to want to do in one day ever,

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And I've been doing it for years.

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There's so much to see and do.

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Well and exactly and it's also not only is there

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more entertainments. Even one of the lines when you arrive

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at our opening gate, the mayor goes, there's more entertainment

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than one could see in a full day at the festival.

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And it's true.

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Absolutely, We've got thirteen stages that run all day long,

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everything from small intimate stages to big stages with you know,

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five drummer typo drummers performing at the same time. So

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I but obviously yes, people do come once and then

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they're like, oh, I want to upgrade to a season pass,

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which is very easy to do at our box office.

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And again I can't do the math, but you know,

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if you buy a season pass, it's good for all

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sixteen days of our show. And it has some extra

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perks too, like you get a special express lane at

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all of our pubs, so like this couple extra perks

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besides getting the great deal on the daily ticket as

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well for our season pass holders.

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So what got you involved? When you first got involved?

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So I've been doing Renaissance festivals since two thousand and four,

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So this is my twenty second year working for Renaissance

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festivals in general. But I started my journey with the

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Florida Renaissance Festival in twenty seventeen. I came here as

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an independent performer with two shows that I was producing,

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which were The Crimson Pirates, which is our musical band

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that I'm a member of, as well as The Greatest

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Pirate Story I Never Told, which is an improvised pirate

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musical that we're not doing anymore.

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We moved on from.

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That show into some new stuff, but I started doing

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the show in twenty seventeen.

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I was performing here for a few years.

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Then one of my mentors who was pretty much one

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of the reasons I'm so involved doing festivals, Scott McNeal.

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We were very good friends and colleagues at the New

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York Renaissance Festival, where's where I started, and he was

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our former artistic director. He actually retired last year, so

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this is my first year stepping into this role full

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time as artistic director.

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And when he retired, I took over. But he basically four.

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Years ago asked me if I'd like to be involved

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in the art department here, And you know, besides the

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Renaissance festival background, that I have. I've also been a

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set designer and a theater producer as well, so all

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of those things kind of overlap. And because we build

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our show from the ground up, some of the festivals

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that are as big and has been around as long

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as we have are on permanent sites.

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New York, Crystal, Maryland. They have their their acreage that they.

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Build beautiful, huge buildings on and you know, they're there

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all year round, even though again they're only open for

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two months about they don't have to build it and

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tear down every time. They have to, you know, put

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up the flags and the banners and everything. But we

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come into buy at Orders Park and it's a beautiful Christine,

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South Florida County park with beautiful lakes and trees and

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just a beautiful space that we're so fortunate.

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To be able to partner with them and County the

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park system here.

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But everything you see from our stages to our boots

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that our vendors bring in, every wall that goes up

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to hide the backstage, every banner, every flag, that all

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gets brought in and set up in about three and

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a half weeks and then it all gets torn down

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in two weeks at the end.

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And we're done.

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And people don't realize, as somebody that's been doing events

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since eleven years old, how much work that entails to

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put that together. And that's somebody that goes to that

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park when there's not a resance festival, like when you

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guys are there, I don't even recognize the park, to

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be honest. It's such a transformation, it really is.

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And you know, I say, we transform our park into

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a you know, a thriving sixteenth century village.

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It's kind of the mantra. And it's all I tell everyone.

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Because I kind of head up our again our artistic

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department with our site crew, and I also head up

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our entertainment division, so my umbrella encompasses all of that.

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So I sort of bring the esthetic of the festival

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and the producer's vision and our creative team's vision. I'm

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kind of the one overseeing and implementing it all and

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trying to execute it the best that I can. But

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the reason I'm saying that is because I tell everyone involved,

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from you know, our cast, to our site crew to

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you know, I also get involved a little bit with

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our bar staff and our vendor staff and our game

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staff to kind of just get them a little bit

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of a primer, like, remember, you're not you when you when.

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You walk through our gates.

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When the gates open, you know, you're in a character

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who is welcoming our guests into our village. So I

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always tell people it's like everything collective that we're doing

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is one giant magic trick, one illusion that we have

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transformed this part park into this village of Kimmandale. And

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you know, and if any one of those parts of

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the illusion fails, you know, the crack and the armor,

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you know, but we've got an incredible team. We've can

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blessed with a really incredible team across the board, so

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that magic trick is is alive and thriving and well.

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Nice, and it certainly is.

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And now you guys have themed weekends every weekend, which

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is so cool to me, you know. And I was

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there on Cupid's Weekend and I'm like, I'm thinking, well,

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I don't think I've ever been on Cupid's Weekend, so

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I'm going to try.

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That this year.

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And I love how people like it. Amazes me more

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than any other type of event out there. How people

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get so in character for the different weekend and I'm

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not talking about the people working there, I'm talking about

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the people attending.

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Absolutely, So you know we've you know, we wouldn't have

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been around for thirty four years if we didn't have

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wonderful recurring patrons and guests who've been coming since the beginning.

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You know, we had a Our industry in.

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General, was very fortunate, fortunate that after COVID, you know,

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that year that.

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Everything started coming back.

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People are looking for things to do, but hope things

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more outdoors because.

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You know, you didn't want that cross contamination.

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Kind of think it was such an unknown time and

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God were moved past it.

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But I think that was.

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A way that brought in a lot of folks who said,

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you know what, we've never been to the Renaissance Festival before.

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Let's let's check it out. And you know, people check

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it out and they get books because it's.

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A great time.

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Absolutely and sad.

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So how do you determine the themes for the different weekends,

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you know, because I'm sure you have a bunch to

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choose from and you got to decide what's going to

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be best this year.

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So we have some stock themes that we always try

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to work in, like we always have a Pirate's weekend.

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We always have a Viking weekend, a time travelers weekend,

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or a kind of steampunk weekend.

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We kind of cross those two.

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We've been really building, especially since I've come in now

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under this new purview of artistic director. We've been building

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up because over the last few years we've really invested

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our owners, really invested in the overall aesthetic of the festival.

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So we're really now trying to have we have a big,

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beautiful Viking themed area and a big beautiful Pirate themed area.

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We have sort of, you know.

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During the Renaissance, it's more European centered in the history,

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so we have a whole area where we have an

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amazing encampment that represents the Ottoman Empire and sort of

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everything that would have been each to Europe, kind of

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the European amalgam of everything that Marco Polo would have

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brought back with him. So we have an area kind

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of themed around that. So we have these themed areas

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that we used to build the weekends into as well.

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But then we've also then built the lore of our

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kingdom of so we have our village of Kimmindale, and

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even though we exist within the timeline of the true Renaissance,

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because we have our steampunk people, because we have vikings

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and pirates and so many things that overlap different eras

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of history. We've definitely gone, and we're still the Renaissance Festival.

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But we've gone.

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We've incorporated and folded in a lot more fantasy and

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fixed historical fictional elements, and we put together this continent

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of Calandria that the festival takes place within, and all

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of those kingdoms, all of those areas now exists together

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within that new reality that exists along side of real

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European Renaissance history.

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I'll tell you something else too.

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You added something this year that Now I'm not a drinker,

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but I noticed immediately. I'm like, oh wow, they have

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that this year. And that's the meat important from England.

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That's pretty amazing.

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Yes, so we have a new meat partner, did Hugger Meat.

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We're very excited to have them. And again, just you

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think we have real English mead in our festival. It's

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very exciting. And not only can you get that, I

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think in all of our pubs. I think maybe just

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the smaller pub at the front, but maybe even they do.

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They're going to be mad at me for not doing that.

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But all of our pubs serve the original meat, and

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then some are larger pubs. There's also a sour cherry

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mead as well, and there might even be another flavor.

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That is as right now.

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But not only can you get it at our pub,

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but if you really enjoy it at the front of

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the festival before you leave, you've actually stopped.

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In with our beat vendors and take a bottle home

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with you.

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Wow. Oh cool?

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Yes, so oh Hello, it's our production stage manager, Paul Horner.

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Hello, Production stage management. Nope, nope, nope, We're all good.

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We're on the See. As I said, the festival is

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alive and working all the time.

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I love that we're at.

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Twenty four or not twenty four hour, but we're definitely

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a seven day week operation.

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Well, and I love that you mentioned that even earlier

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because again, like people just have no clue of what

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goes beyond to make this magic happen, and that to

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me is the biggest ordeal.

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Again, we have a I couldn't tell you how many,

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but we have an incredible site crew team.

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So up about Paul, how many people are on sche crew?

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Five thirty five?

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So you have a team of thirty five construction and

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sanitition and carpentry and just all the elements that we

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need to build, which is one of what we pull off.

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Here at the Florida Reizance Festival.

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I think it's unique in the country because we come

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into a blank canvas a park. It has nothing here,

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and we bring in tractor trey aload attract to tread

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equipment that we set up and once it's up, you

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can't tell it's not a permanent site.

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So we are very excited with what people off.

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Here each year, and then it goes all away and

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there's nothing left on this ground when we leave.

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I was even saying Tom earlier as somebody that goes

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to the park when there's not a Renaissance festival and

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goes every year when there is. It's like the transformation

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is so magical, because like I have no idea on

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that Quiet Waters Park when I'm in there.

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We try, we want to make sure that when we

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leave here, other than some patterns in the grass, right,

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there's no really left that you can tell we were here.

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There you go, I'm glad that all right evolved.

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Okay, But again, Paul is kind of the way I

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bridge the entertainment with the cyclo in our department. Paul

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also is our stage management stage manager who bridges the

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psy crew with the entertainment part of it as well.

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And what else do we have new in twenty twenty six,

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because you've instituted a lot of new things this year.

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Yeah, so again over the past couple of years, so

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we've for this year we have some really exciting new

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entertainment acts.

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We have some old favorites for turning in with us

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in a while.

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We have two out of three the members of Cantiga,

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which is an amazing true early music renaissance band. Martha

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Gay and Tom Wedville on the fiddle and they play

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beautiful medieval and renaissance music. They're back at our early

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music stage to fight from the fiddle. We have some

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returning favorites like wrote the Temporess, who comes all the

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way from Italy to do our show every year. It's

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a medieval bagpipe and drum band Sam Coma, which is

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a tycho and kind of Viking fusion band, which is

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also super exciting. Again, we have our cast and it's

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the largest cast we've had potentially ever, but definitely.

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Last ten to fifteen years, and again we have about

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seventy people, and that's.

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Not including our dance troupe or our our independent acts.

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So we have a whole village full.

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Of characters ready to meet a great and welcome you

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to Kiven now. As well as let me just trying

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to think off the top of head.

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We have the Crimson Pirates, which is my band, so

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I'm also a performer here at the festival. We do

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a bunch of Celtic standards and maritime standards with kind

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of a folk rock twist. There's Pirates Creed who is

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also They call their music style seagrass, so it's sort

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of like a maritime and bluegrass millange. Oh my god,

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there's just so much and there's also part of the reason,

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I guess we've talked about the season passes a little

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while ago, but not only is there so much entertainment

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than you could see on any given day, we also

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have rotating acts as well, so we have new x

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coming in on a kind of rotating basis, so you'll

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never see the same stage lineup on any given day really,

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or at least any given couple. You know, you come

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in on weekend there's going to be new acts by

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the time you come back on weekend three.

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So that's really exciting as well.

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That's why it's so important to get season pass and

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go every weekend.

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You know, it's it's really you know, it's a great

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bang for your bucket, especially like you look at you know,

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we're in Florida here, you have you have access to

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so many high end, wonderful parks in Orlando a few

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hours away. But you know, for people in Broward County

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in the greater Miami area, this is in your backyard. Yeah.

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And you know, you a season pass that gets you

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sixteen days of entertainment is about the price of the

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one data in one of the parks in Orlando.

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So you get a lot of entertainment for that ticket price,

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for sure.

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Absolutely.

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And then you even have a special going on for

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weekend five where you're doing a special offer.

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Yes.

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So again I mentioned we have over one hundred vendors

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and artisans, so we have our marketplace weekend. So we've

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partnered now with our vendors so to encourage people to

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come in and you know, buy that beautiful Renaissance dress,

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maybe go and buy some jewelry, stock up you know,

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your early Christmas shopping, holiday shopping done here.

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Because there's so many unique things.

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I bought earrings for my mom the other day, so

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I was like, oh my god, she's gonna love these.

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So I went and you know, you never know what

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you're gonna find kind of here from that end. But yes,

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if you spend and I forget the breakdown, forgive me.

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I have it?

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Do oh do ared? I appreciate that?

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How about that? So yeah, the guests who spend two

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hundred and fifty or more on any Artesian vendor booth

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purchases only will receive one or more complimentary tickets to

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come back for the twenty twenty sixth show. The total

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amount can be divided up between multiple Artesian purchases, does

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not have to be one single transaction. For every additional

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two hundred and fifty dollars spent, you can earn another

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complimentary ticket for up to a maximum of four tickets

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of one thousand dollars total. So you know, everybody needs

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to go to the website. Go to Renfest dot com.

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That's ren Hyphenfest dot com, slash events or just click

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on the events tab and then what's new and you

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can take care of that special weekend and haggle with

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you there exactly.

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Yeah, and I mean again, like I said, if you

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want to get your holiday shopping done early and then

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you get some you know, some tickets to come back

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and join us again, it's a great promotion that helps

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the show, helps our guests, and also helps our vendors

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to you know, sell some of their beautiful stuff.

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My favorite thing to buy at the Renfest I look

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forward to every year is the weapons. Because I'm a

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person I don't own a gun. I don't want a gun,

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but I do like cool weapons that are unique, you know,

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and like so I love going to different vendors that

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have all the different weapons and you know, listen, a

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renaissance gone I'm good with, but like and swords and.

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All the different knives. I have this thing. It goes

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on my finger and it's a blade on it. That thing.

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I didn't realize how dangerous that that I could do

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some serious damage. I've I've made myself bleed with it.

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Don't have when you well, yeah, yeah, you can't be

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doing that. And then I like the damn, I'm drawing

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a blank right now. That where you have to stick

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with the ball with the spikes on it.

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Oh fail, or a mace yeah, has the chain and

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the mace is just on the stick.

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Yeah, I like. I like both of them.

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Actually, you know, I like those unique weapons that could

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do serious damage that I probably wouldn't damage anybody.

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With damage yourself. That's the most.

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Important exactly, But you know, sometimes it might be worth it.

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I don't know. I'm just kidding. But and I'll tell

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you what too.

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I don't know what your favorite act of the Renfest is,

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and you it would be hard to play favorites. But

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those washing Well wenches, oh my god, oh man.

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I mean, they are an institution for a reason, and

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you'll find them at almost every festival in the country.

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We're very fortunate to have an amazing duo of cousins.

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They're all cousins for some reason.

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I know they're all cousins. I think they're all from

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West Virginia, originally.

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West Virginia via Sussex, England.

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Yes, yeah, they immigrated from Sussex, England to there.

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It's very possible. It's very possible. You know, one of

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those shows.

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It's again one of the things that I fell in

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love with the festival back when I again twenty two

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years ago. There truly is something for everyone here because

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we have everything from the washingbell wenches, real beautiful broad

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committi South comedy and you know a little innuendo but

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you know enough that it'll go over your kids heads

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if you go see them. Two we have the jousting

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on horseback to amazing music acts. Again we have everything

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from you know, singing pirates to true Renaissance music.

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We have a few.

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We have Cantiga coming in next week, but this week

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we have the final weekend of the hardware and the

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minstrel who play so many different period instruments from the

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Renaissance era as well as a merry noise. There're a

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Renaissance woodwind, you know, and they have everything from the

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little tiny recorders to the big contra bassoons of the era.

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And it's just it's just there's so much to see

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and do here.

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I love the brass. What's it called the.

451
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Bras ivanhoe brass.

452
00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:55.599
Yeah, the big, the big looks like a big ancient

453
00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:59.279
machine playing oh the bells and.

454
00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:03.079
All that, yes, yes, bells to go cast and runs

455
00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.960
there with us this season for the full run it

456
00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:10.039
is we always we have a line in one of

457
00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:14.319
our scenes where the mistresses. We even have the world's

458
00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:18.200
largest heaviest instrument, something I do all too much about

459
00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:23.680
the Carolina bells. So yes, so that is a full

460
00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:28.240
Carolina tuned bells that he plays five times a day,

461
00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:31.359
kind of right in the heart of our pharaalel back

462
00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:32.359
towards the jobs field.

463
00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:35.839
And it's true. I always say our show has something

464
00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:37.960
from people four to one hundred and four.

465
00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:42.200
You know you've got every There's no reason you should

466
00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:44.519
come here at any age and not have a full

467
00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:46.759
day of entertainment and fun and adventure.

468
00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:50.160
Well, I do have a funny story from a couple

469
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:55.200
of week in weekends ago and okay, the show says

470
00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:59.319
right outside it was R rated, but I think there

471
00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:01.759
was a father that didn't see that brought his kid

472
00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:05.960
in and it was the was the guy that does

473
00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:07.440
the poetry.

474
00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:10.279
Arthur Greenleaf homes.

475
00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:17.359
Yes, yes, Andy, oh sorry you well, he's he's He

476
00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:21.640
said something like right after he started he said, are

477
00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:24.400
you sure you want your kid here?

478
00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:27.359
And then oh, yeah, it's okay, it's okay, And then

479
00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:30.519
he started finishing, going on whenever he was reading and

480
00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:36.880
got and left because it was it was really really good,

481
00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:38.279
but not for the kid.

482
00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:42.559
Yes, but we do have one stage that is dedicated

483
00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:45.559
as our R rated tent, the Great Hall Stage, where

484
00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:50.559
there is very risky but very clever acts there.

485
00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:55.119
So we just had again talking about the rotation of acts.

486
00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:59.119
So Arthur Greenleaf Holmes is with us for the for

487
00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:04.119
the for the of our show, doing his unique brand

488
00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:09.920
of jergy ditty's and poetry, but incredibly clever.

489
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:13.000
I mean he's been you know he has. He's been

490
00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:13.880
all over the country.

491
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.240
He has had several off Broadway runs doing his his work.

492
00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:21.599
He's a really amazing professional. He gave that dad the out.

493
00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:24.359
That's all I'm gonna say. He said, you know, are

494
00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:25.240
you sure you want to be here?

495
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:29.559
He did, like, uh, listen, it's your fault. Listen. If

496
00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:33.000
somebody tells you that, they're really telling you. You might want.

497
00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:37.079
But you know on that stage.

498
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:39.880
Also, this season we've had Midwife crisis, which is a

499
00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:45.759
oh yes, she finished her run with us for this season,

500
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:48.599
but I'm hoping we'll have her back next year. Now

501
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:51.920
we have arriving Chase Treasure, which is three Ladies of

502
00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:55.279
the Court who sort of like Arthur Greenley poems.

503
00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:58.839
Sells us sort of dirty poems, but.

504
00:28:58.839 --> 00:29:04.039
I remember them, yes, and then let when I I

505
00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:05.680
don't know if you have it this year, but one

506
00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:10.599
of my favorites also is Christian Salter. Do you remember

507
00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:13.759
him Christian Salter? Oh, yes, yes.

508
00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:16.400
So he he's not with us this year, and I

509
00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:19.039
don't want to speak at a turn. But he's also

510
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:22.240
a fantasy novelist, so I believe that part of his

511
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:25.279
career has been taking off nice maybe switching gears a

512
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:30.200
little bit, but don't quote me on that he was

513
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:34.160
making that transition before I became the assistant of entertainment here,

514
00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:36.799
So I don't know one hundred percent. I don't want

515
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:38.960
to talk out of school, but I believe it's all

516
00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:39.960
good things that he's not here.

517
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.000
It's not like, you know, I get out of here now.

518
00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:44.319
And there's a lot of things there that are very

519
00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:46.839
similar to all that, which is what I love. It's

520
00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:53.440
like it's that humor that really, you know, you can't

521
00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:56.400
even define it as dirty humor because it's done so

522
00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:58.160
cleverly right.

523
00:29:58.240 --> 00:30:00.759
It's uh, the art of in you do, I think

524
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.319
is kind of what it really boils down.

525
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:06.000
To, and that you know, it is a sort of

526
00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:09.440
there is this sort of British humor slant that I

527
00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:09.799
think the.

528
00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:14.799
Renaissance Festival apparently gravitates towards that sort of monty Python,

529
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:23.279
absolutely fabulous, faulty Towers general sort of slightly more farcical

530
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:28.640
and clever humor that you know, we're our type of

531
00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:29.799
entertainment industry is.

532
00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:34.400
Going for absolutely So is there anything we haven't covered

533
00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:36.039
that you want the listeners to know?

534
00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:39.200
My goodness, I mean we talked, we've touched about everything.

535
00:30:39.319 --> 00:30:46.920
But again, like in my mind, there's between the the entertainment.

536
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.680
You know, if the entertainment starts before our gates even open,

537
00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:54.079
our opening gate scene starts to welcome the guests at about.

538
00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:57.920
Nine forty eight every day, and the entertainment.

539
00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:00.680
Doesn't stop until we're waving goodbye to everyone at the

540
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.960
front at that same gate as the sun is setting.

541
00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:06.440
You know, we have.

542
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:12.559
Again, we have everything from jousting and stage combat to

543
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:16.480
those clever, you know, more adult theme shows, to music

544
00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:20.279
of every sort of genre again, from folk to.

545
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:26.519
True Renaissance and Celtic music.

546
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.680
We have a new group this year, new Minstrel Review,

547
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.119
who has been around forever, but we haven't able to

548
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:35.160
get them down here. We've finally got them down here,

549
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:42.200
and they're an incredible trio doing all original sort of

550
00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:48.319
folk and kind of blue grassy music, just incredible stuff. Uh.

551
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.440
And from that, and then not only that, but we

552
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:54.119
have the vendors, and we also have the food and

553
00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:57.440
the beverage. Like we have seven themed pubs. So the

554
00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:59.720
pubs aren't just walking in and like buying a beer.

555
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:02.640
They're all themes to their areas. So we have the

556
00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:06.119
Black Wolf Pub, which is our beautiful biking themed pub.

557
00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:13.359
We have the Crossroads Pub, which is our beautiful pirate environment.

558
00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:16.000
It's very environmentally. You walk in, and their sails and

559
00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:18.400
netting and everything you walk inside you feel like you're

560
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:19.319
inside up different.

561
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:20.319
Uh.

562
00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:24.160
And then there is the Mad Tentacle Society Pub, which is.

563
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:25.519
In our steampunk area.

564
00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:29.519
So there's all sorts of steam tanks and pipes and

565
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:34.039
everything putting that bar together and you know, and so

566
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.440
everything you kind of are walking into is an aversive

567
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.000
environment to make you feel like you're part of this

568
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.440
this village and this area.

569
00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:43.799
And of course, oh my goodness, our.

570
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:45.599
Owners would never forgive me if I didn't mention our

571
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:51.119
champagne bar. Champagne bar also in the Pirate area with

572
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.119
you know, prosecco as well as all sorts of sparkling.

573
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:58.480
Wine cocktails which are a lot of fun. And it's

574
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:03.960
even we have character who holds to Champagne, Madame Jacqueline Salse.

575
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:06.160
She would be so happy to greet you and offer

576
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:07.079
you a bless of shemping.

577
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:09.319
Yes, I was there.

578
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:14.720
It's amazing And I'll tell you what My favorite part

579
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:18.200
still to this day is the end of the day

580
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:22.079
where you have both the pub Sing and then out

581
00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:26.079
in the middle with the music and the dancing, you know,

582
00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:28.920
out in the middle of there at the end, Like

583
00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:33.880
I just love that. Like I sit there even this

584
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.680
last time I'm watching people leave. I'm like, how it's

585
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:40.519
like leaving for the encore band at a concert, Like

586
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:42.200
what's wrong with you?

587
00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:44.039
You know, I will say, maybe people are trying to

588
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:46.359
get home, maybe they have kids, But no, I mean again,

589
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:48.480
we go up are we have two our final two

590
00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:50.759
shows of the day, the pub Sing, which is sort

591
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:53.880
of our variety act where all of the all of

592
00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:56.599
the music acts from across the festival come together at

593
00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:58.839
the end of the day and we have and we

594
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:01.720
kind of jam together and feature each other and play

595
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:05.200
with each other. And you know, we send everyone home

596
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:08.360
in song, you know, sing along with us at our

597
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:13.719
final couple songs. And then our big drum bands also

598
00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:16.480
hang out at the crossroads and do again kind of

599
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:19.559
a big drum and bagpipe dance party two as well.

600
00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:23.039
So again the entertainment goes right up until the last moment,

601
00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:25.880
that last candid fires and we close our gates and said.

602
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:27.719
Your home, and there it is.

603
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:32.159
And if you haven't gone this year yet, there's still

604
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.679
time people. You have till March twenty ninth weekend Saturday

605
00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:37.480
and Sundays.

606
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:39.400
You can't miss it.

607
00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:42.960
And I can tell you too that there's some really

608
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.440
cool weekends coming up here. You know we talked about

609
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:52.360
you know, His Majesty's Marketplace, but there's also you got

610
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:56.519
the Clover, the Rainbow, a gathering of green. You got

611
00:34:56.599 --> 00:35:00.360
rives of the cockkeepers tinkering in time. Then you got

612
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:05.559
the fantastical fables, a world beyond the page. And then

613
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:11.679
the last weekend of September of how did I combine

614
00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:16.039
February with September, I don't know. The last weekend of

615
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:21.880
February beginning of March, and you have sirens and shipwrecks

616
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.039
party till the end of the plank.

617
00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:27.519
And this weekend is a Vikings vealor we we'll have

618
00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:31.760
our vikings coming to take over our village to see

619
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:33.320
this year nice.

620
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:39.320
Well, it's been a pleasure speaking with you. I always love, love,

621
00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:44.679
love the Renfest, and everybody in South Florida, they need

622
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:47.679
to go, because if you haven't gone to one, and

623
00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:51.280
all you people that moved from other places, this is

624
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:53.760
the premiere event in South Florida.

625
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:55.840
You need to go. Don't miss it this year.

626
00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:56.920
Well, thank you.

627
00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:58.840
I hope to see all of them there and I

628
00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:01.039
hope we get to see you there and as well, hopefully.

629
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:01.559
Put the end of the season.

630
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:02.920
You got it.

631
00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:05.039
Thank you all right, thank you.

632
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:10.400
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Patement on

633
00:36:11.079 --> 00:36:13.800
w for c u I Radio