Virginia Renaissance Faire

Five weekends of revelry and merrimentMusic, stage performances, jousting, hound coursing, living history demonstrations, and more! Explore the many things to do and see around our fair village of Staffordshire. Archery Through the Ages All Weekends. Demonstrations of archery and bow making, as well as a daily archery tournament. Blue Run Jousting Troupe Performing All Weekends. Fine knights and noble steeds demonstrating knightly skills. Dinty the Moor Performing All Weekends. Magic! Historical con games and swindles, multilingual mindreadin g! Diego Natividad de la Estafa, aka "Dinty, the Moor" brings comedy, magic, mentalism and chicanery back to the shire. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Bad Idea Entertainment Better entertainment through poor life choices.  An exploration of bad ideas through sideshow, magic, and circus. Bone & String 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. Fletcher Moone & the Culture of Beer 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! Euterpea Euterpea Fantasy Flute invites you to explore your imagination with creative, improvised flute music incorporating classical flute, alto and bass flute, bamboo flutes, and wooden flutes paired with effects pedals to create a fantasy soundscape like no other. Kathy Harkness, Celtic Harper Celtic Harpyr: Folk harp tunes and songs of Celtic lands. Maugorn The Stray Wandering Minstrel, one-man medieval band, and bootless gangrel. Pilgrims of the Deep Run The Pilgrims of Deep Run are a Baltimore-based Irish Trad group. Bridging a range of dance tunes and pub songs, the Pilgrims give a high energy show with an emphasis on audience engagement. Members switch between voice, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, bodhrán, bones, bouzouki, and tin whistle, delivering lively new arrangements of this heritage music. At festivals, weddings, private events, or a festive night in the pub, the Pilgrims of Deep Run draw every listener into the tradition. Sibling Ryvalrie A troupe of talented siblings perform traditional tunes, song and dance. Token Entertainment 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. The Gwendolyn Show Gwendolyn Steele is making her way in the world solo. What kind of trouble can she get into? Join in as Gwendolyn explores life, the universe, and how to get a date! We May Be Minstrels An a cappella harmony group, featuring songs written in the 17th and 16th centuries. Click here to Buy Tickets [https://varf.org/index.php/faire-info/]