Information about the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and other Renaissance Faires!
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This page is dedicated to my love of the Renaissance Festival! Every since I first attended the Festival back in 1981 in Shakopee, Minnesota I have been an avid and diehard fan. I first started attending the RenFest in costume in about 1985 with the basic peasant outfit and from that point on I have continued to develop my current costume and character (photo). For information about the actual renaissance period, click here. |
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Links to Other Renaissance Festivals |
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Listed below are links to the web pages of other Renaissance Festivals I've found so far. For information on other festival locations and dates, check these out. |
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Link to The Minnesota Renaissance Festival web host. Not the official Mid-America version. |
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Link to The Mid-America Festivals site with official information on the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and and other related festivals and events. |
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Link to The Phoenix Project and information about the fire at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. This site has photos of the site after the fire plus other information. |
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Link to The Bristol Renaissance Festival located outside Kenosha Wisconsin between Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL. |
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Link to the home site for the Renaissance Entertainment Corporation. Information about other festival locations around the country. |
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Link to the Colorado Renaissance Festival. |
Links to Renaissance Artisan's Web Pages |
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Listed below are links to the web pages for some of the Renaissance Artisans that I have met. I will continue to collect info on other artisan pages and paste them here as I can. If you have a page and would like it included, let me know. |
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Link to Ruth Thompson's web page "Tarnished Images". Ruth is an artist that also attends the MN Renaissance Festival and has a booth "Tarnished Images" there. Fantastic fantasy artwork, excellent web site. If you like that type of art, well worth checking out. Personal comment: Ruth is a very nice lady also! |
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Omega Artwork creates daggers and swords, "Sculpture with a point". Located in St. Paul, MN. |
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Arms & Armor manufactures swords and daggers. Very nice swords, some of them are a little on the spendy side but but if you have the money, the place to go for a nice weapon. I love their pierced blades, the only place I've seem them so far. Located in St. Paul, MN. |
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DreamScape Artist: Mark Maztke is an artist with a booth at the MN RenFest. I purchased one of his pieces "The Kiss" a couple of years ago. The web page does not do justice to Mark's work. Located in Little America, MN. |
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Chainmaille Fashions: Randolph Markhams's Chain Maille page. Randolph is the main person responsible for those chainmaille fashion designs seen wondering around the festival. Most often it is the the body beneath the maille that catches the attention but they do definitely catch the attention. |
Links to Performers Pages |
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Here are a few links to other Renaissance performer's home pages. Nice way to "meet" some of the other performers and participants of the Fest. If you are a Ren Fest performer and have a page you would like included let me know and I would be happy to include it with the others. |
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| Pulanami Puppets: | The Worlds most Dangerous Puppet Troupe |
| Lady Ophelia: | Link to Tracy's personal page. |
| Rosalily's Renfest Regalia | Rosalily Bud, editor and publisher of "The Knight After" personal web page. |
Renaissance Links in General |
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| This is the area where I will try and include any links I find that may be of interest to others. Like all the other areas in my site this is a start and I will be adding as I go along. | |
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Kalani's Renaissance Faire Page |
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MRFfriends Resource Page: A resource page for the MN Renaissance Festival Friends and listserve. |
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Twincities Sidewalk: Info on the MN Renaissance Festival |
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Medieval and Renaissance Ring: Link to the main listing page for the more than 526 member web sites. More sites than most people will ever be able to check out! |
Fotos From the Festivals |
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I have set up several pages with photos of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and other festivals I have attended. Some of these date back to the early 80's and are an interesting study of the changes in the people and the festival over the years. For some of the people that were attending in costume back in '86, take a look and see if your photo is included. I will continue to scan and upload photos as I get a chance so keep checking back. |
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BRISTOL PHOTOS '99: Watch this space and in the next few days I will try and upload copies of the photos taken at the Bristol Renaissance Faire on June 26th, 1999. |
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MEDIEVAL TIMES PHOTOS: While attending Bristol this year we also attended the Medieval Times dinner theater. I was extremely impressed by the quality of the production and the level of professionalism of every aspect of the evening! I highly recommend attending if anyone gets the chance. I have included a couple of photos of us here. |
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MN FESTIVAL PHOTOS '86: A collection of photos of the Festival from past years. Most of the photos on this page were taken by me back in 1986. For those of you that have been attending for many years, this is a good page to check out the changes and see if your photo might be included. |
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MN Renaissance Festival '99: A collection of panoramic photos of the festival grounds and regular photos of the '99 festival and people. I will upload more of them as quickly as I can. For those of you I talked with on Saturday, August 21st, send an e-mail and I will send you JPG copies if you would like. Let me know. |
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Pictures of Friends:
A collection of Fotos of Friends at the Fest. Pictures of Sir John Boyd (that"s me). Pictures of friends and I at the Fest. Pictures of Amanda, Colleen's daughter Pictures of Sitzmark group at festival 1995 Pictures of "Darkness" AKA Reid Isberg. Pictures of Lord Gareth and Lady Thyraa at RenFest '99. |
Please sign my Guestbook and let me know what you think, etc etc etc.....
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This site is under construction! Check back and see what I've added (when I get the time)
This site was last updated on Wednesday, December 29, 1999