Carolina Renaissance Festival
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Occupying the invented 'European' village of "Fairhaven," The Carolina Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance Fair held annually in October and November in the town of Huntersville, North Carolina. It is the largest of the three major North Carolina renaissance faires, drawing 130,000 patrons per season.[1]
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[edit] Attractions and activities
Major attractions include the thrice-daily jousting tournament, which for the past several years has featured the Hanlon-Lees Action Theater. Other attractions include live stage shows by groups such as The Tortuga Twins, Don Juan and Miguel, TheLondon Broil Show, and the Loch Norman Highland Bagpipe Band. Roaming the "lanes" of the festival are a variety of street performers who engage in more direct interaction with visitors. There are a number of musicians who perform at various venues throughout the site playing music on instruments such as the harp or bagpipes, or other more obscure "period" instruments. The Performance Company at the CRF is a series of costumed characters who interact directly with visitors to the fair, in an attempt to create a more authentic feel of a renaissance-era town. This Company is primarily composed of people from surrounding communities.
There are numerous shopping opportunities, with many vendors selling a variety of goods. Such items include handmade jewelry, artisan leather goods, blown glass made at live demonstrations, candles, and custom chain mail. The fair vends an assortment of vaguely medieval foods, including giant turkey legs, various soups, stews, and chowders served in "bread bowls", "Steak on a Stake", fish and chips, corn on the cob, and Scotch eggs.
Alongside the shops one can find games from archery target-shooting, crossbow shooting, axe- and star throwing, to frog catapults and a gold coin hunt.
[edit] Patron interaction
One aspect of entertainment at the Carolina Renaissance Festival is the interaction between the performers with the visitors. Street performers will engage visitors with conversation, and will often encourage patron participation.
[edit] Attire
The performers at the CRF are dressed in garb that appears anachronistic, although is not always historically accurate. The performers' attire ranges from outfits based on those from the Medieval period up to the Elizabethan. Patrons of the CRF very often come in "garb" themselves, an aspect common to most renaissance fairs.
