New York It’s closing weekend at the Sterling Renaissance Festival and they’re planning a Grand Finale! It’s your last chance this year to experience the the Renaissance with the villagers of Warwickshire and they are going all out to make sure you have a great time. There are various ways to get discounts, some will [...]
New York It’s the fifth weekend of the Sterling Renaissance Festival and they’re celebrating with a Wine Lover’s Bacchanal. Pubs will offer samples of wines from across the Finger Lakes wine region and a grape stomping contest will select the Lord or Lady of Wine. If you’d rather sample your wine in a more genteel [...]
New York It’s Celtic Weekend at the Sterling Renaissance Festival in upstate New York. You’ll find traditional Scottish and Irish dancing, a bag pipe band, and kilted men competing in a Caber Toss Competition and demonstration. Enjoy Festival musicians, Merry Mischief, Cantiga, Crannog, and others as they showcase their Celtic selections. And, for this weekend [...]
It’s a Pirates’ Revel at Sterling Renaissance Festival this weekend in Sterling, New York. You’ll get a chance to win some pirate booty if you join the Dread Pirate Costume Contest. You can save $1 with discounted advance tickets at area Price Chopper and Wegmans stores. Firefighters, Law Enforcement Officers, and Military personnel discounts are [...]
Sterling Renaissance Festival continues this weekend in Sterling, New York, with a Romance Rendezvous. You can save $1 with discounted advance tickets at area Price Chopper and Wegmans stores. Firefighters, Law Enforcement Officers, and Military personnel discounts are available with a picture ID for you and one guest. And you can get a $1 discount [...]
Whether walking the rope, singing a love song to a maiden in the lanes, or leading the band in to a resounding chorus, he brings a sense of wonder to everything he does. Always on the lookout for something new to learn, the jester has developed the talents necessary to sustain the renaissance traveler he is at heart. The quick-witted troubadour charms even the Queens of our Faire shires and they welcome him to their festivities and urge him to return safely from his travels. Let me introduce you to Giacomo the Jester. [...]
Italian streams from his lips as he makes dinner plans with Giacomo and, for a moment, you wonder if you’ve been transported to one of the European festivals. Finished, he returns to your conversation, laughing easily as he turns the crab hat, a talisman against rain, repeatedly in his hands. Never still, he seems always to be scanning his surroundings for something to play with and you wonder how long it will be before he reaches in to a pouch and pulls out enough objects to form a pattern. Let me introduce you to Paolo Garbanzo. [...]
Auditions for the 2008 interactive improvisational troupe of the Sterling Renaissance Festival will take place as follows: SYRACUSE: Thursday, March 27th from 7 PM to 10 PM at: Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse, NY; Room 243. Open call, sign-up starts at 7 PM and ends at 9 PM. Call back same day. PHILADELPHIA: Sunday, [...]
