Bay Area Renaissance Festival

Tampa, FL
Weekends, February 18 – April 2, 2017

For 39 years, the Bay Area Renaissance Festival has transformed Tampa into a 16th century village featuring more than 12 stages of entertainment, armored jousting, and fun for the whole family!

Check out the other 9 top Festivals in the state of Florida at: https://www.vacationsmadeeasy.com/TheBLT/11oftheBestRenaissanceFairsandFestivalsinFlorida786.html

Today we’ll do books as they apply to something we work at and/or love:   In this case  Medieval and Renaissance Fairs/Festival—with a nod to Scottish Games and the like as well.  And of course we’ll have Jamie….oh and the pictures by the way (at least the ones I took) are from the Tampa Festival on 3/18/17.

FESTIVAL HOURS OF OPERATION

WEEKENDS ONLY
Feb. 18th, 2017 – April 2nd, 2017
@10am – 6pm
Festival Friday, Mar. 31st, 2017

BOOKS AS SUCESS TOOLS

Books aren’t just for school items—-and they can be fun, entertaining or in this instance instructive.

If you work at or want to do so one of these festivals and fairs  as a musician,  a book like this might be a good place to star.   It includes music for flute, mandolin, reorder, whistle, guitar and more and if you plan on singing the lyrics are included too.  This one also includes a recording by it’s author:  Robert Bielefeld.  I also found one just for recorders*:  Mel Bay Medieval and Rennissance by Robert Bancalari.    And for those who dance and also play or plan to hook up with someone that does–the recorder there’s Medieeval and Renaissance  Dances for Recorders by Isabel Carley and also include Hand Drums.

*Recorders are not electrical devices for recording audio or video or the like but rather:  The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument in the group known as internal duct flutes—flutes with a whistle mouthpiece. It is distinguished from other duct flutes by having thumb-hole for the upper hand and seven finger-holes: three for the upper hand and four for the lower. It is the most prominent duct flute in the western classical tradition 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder_(musical_instrument)

FESTIVAL LOCATION

11315 N. 46th Street
Tampa, FL 33617

THE BOOK AS AND EXPLANATION OF THE BELIEVER AND A CLARIFICATION TO THE UNINIATIATED

So how may of my readers out there are saying “Hey Wait Diva—what are all those weird dressed people…why do they go to festivals loosely based and long distance periods of time  and why would someone want to work there or even attend for that matter.   In the above book Well Met:  Renissance Faires & The American Counter Culture by Rachel Lee Rubin might help you to understand a bit more about these event that have been gaining popularity for years…as she states “All the faire’s a stage…. ”  And in this book you will discover (at least according to Ms. Rubin that at these faires everyone is on stage and always playing someone other than themselves….she never met me I like being me–the Dragon Diva…but then that jus is so right at one these festival….soooooooooooooooo.

Renaissance Festival Survival Guide: (A Scot’s Irreverent Look at the Modern American Renfest*)  gives you a look at what you discover at one of these faires and how to survive such things as:  Pirates, Belly-dancers, Renaissance Music, and many others, 

*Renfest by the way is the common abbreviation—again for those of you who haven’t developed a passion for these things.

Take a time-travel adventure into the 16th century at the annual Bay Area Renaissance Festival! Join our Queen in a jubilee! Journey back in time as more than 100 merchants contribute to the atmosphere of this charming 16th century village. Experience live armored jousting, 12 stages of entertainment, 7 theme weekends, and fun and food for the whole family! The Festival is open weekends, with a special day for schools and seniors on Festival Friday, March 31st, 2017. The Festival is open from 10 am – 6 pm, Rain or Shine. Parking at the Bay Area Renaissance Festival is always free! Discount tickets are available at participating Walgreens stores and at MOSI.

Our vote the best guy in a Kilt…

BOOK AS A GUIDE FOR THE REMFEST PURISTS:

One of the favorite subjects of the historian seems to be the Templars–a group of Catholic Monks/knights who formed an order to protect pilgrims in the Holy Lands on their pilgrimages.  Some where along the line they became an international power onto themselves which was greatly reinforced by their vas,  accumulated wealth and multiple properties including their round churches (see my previous discussions of the one left in London which {now} is the church of Inner and Middle Temple, two of England’s four ancient societies of lawyers, the Inns of Court http://www.templechurch.com/).  Reading a book like this will help someone into Templers and the like to develop a costume, locate or have made duplicate weapons—most fairs don’t allow you to bring sharp swords and the like, but very close acceptable one can be made.

Another book (also illustrated) that might be well met for the more  aggressive femmes out there is Women Warlords by Tim Newark whose illustrated book goes from Amazons of the Ancient World, through Celtic Queens (Medb, Cartimandua and one that you’ll be seeing more about in this book month–Boudica) and Women of Christ (Aethelflaed, Matilda of Tuscany and Eleanor of Aquitaine–one of my favorites–she took a group of ladies on the crusades and they were known for riding with exposed breasts—don’t think they’ll take that kindly at most Remfests I’ve been to) and ending with Hundred Years War Women (Jeanne of Montfort, Christine de Pisan, and finally Joan of Arc which even my least knowledgeable reader has probably heard of one way or the other).

Or something a bit more exotic?  Miranda J. Green’s The World of the Druid…which includes the “true history”, Classical sources, Irish myths, the latest discoveries, sacrifice an prophecy, female druids as well as Welsh bards and the modern Druid orders.”   This one is illustrated as well and all three could be extremely helpful in developing costumes, weapons, staffs, and other items including jewelry, head pieces and shoes to name just a few.

Barbarian Brew Fest (Mar. 25th – 26th)

getting you thru Droughlander  to the return of OUTLANDER, which is only a million years away now

Why the dogs and wolves were left out of season 1:  http://tvline.com/2017/03/03/outlander-season-1-cut-scene-wolves-father-bain/

Print shop teases from Sam and Cait:  http://tvline.com/2017/03/03/outlander-season-1-cut-scene-wolves-father-bain/

Season 3–a death in the family:  http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/10/outlander-season-3-sam-heughan

Renaissance Romance Package