Re: performers I think I'll clam up with the chowdah jokes. Oh, y[more ...] Posted by Capt Thighbiter 17 Mar : 06:21
Re: performers Gnomes, gnocchi...so confusing sometimes...;-) Posted by guytodd 17 Mar : 06:10
Re: performers Would you look happy floating in chowder? I think [more ...] Posted by Aviel 16 Mar : 19:38
Re: performers Capt Thighbiter wrote ...Clam Chowder?? Oh think, [more ...] Posted by Marlene 16 Mar : 08:18
Re: performers Capt Thighbiter wrote ...Clam Chowder?? Oh think, [more ...] Posted by Lord Charles 16 Mar : 06:49
Re: performers Clam Chowder?? Oh think, think o' the wee clams. Posted by Capt Thighbiter 16 Mar : 06:09
Re: performers Captain Ann, it's Honey Butter - no rum (sorry)Not[more ...] Posted by giazz 16 Mar : 05:56
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Re: performers No Meat? Yikes, I guess I better meat up before ar[more ...] Posted by Aviel 15 Mar : 15:18
Re: performers MMMMMMMMM Buttered Rum MMMMMMMMMMMMM And yes, g[more ...] Posted by Dale 15 Mar : 13:15
2009 Renaissance Festival Awards
HUZZAH!!! Congratulations to the NERennies.net site for being in the top five of the 2009 Renaissance Festival Awards for Best Faire Web Community!!!! For those who don’t know the Renaissance Festival Awards are, they are awards voted on by Ren Faire enthusiasts and put on by the Renaissance Festival Podcast.2009 was the fifth year for this awards and this year was sponsored by Celtic MP3s Music Magazine and Renaissance Magazine.
We also want to send out a big HUZZAH for our some other local winners:
Midsummer Magick Renaissance Faire #1 for best new faire
Winslow Shire Renaissance Faire #2 for best new faire
CT Renaissance Faire #5 Best Street Cast
CT Renaissance Faire #5 Best Opening Gate Show
The Magic of Daniel Greenwolf #1 Best Non-musical Solo act
Paragon Jousting and Adventure theater #5 Best Jousting Troupe
The long awaited announcement! After being taken such good care of this past spring at our fundraiser dinner we decide to stick to the same venue. This year's Winter Feast will take place January 16th in Hampton, NH at The Old Salt from 6-10pm. As an added bonus, attached to the restaurant is Lamie's Inn. For those of you wishing to make it an overnight adventure, the Inn is willing to offer us a block of rooms at a discounted rate. We need a minimum of I believe 10 rooms to get the discount rate so please contact me if you are interested. Rooms will be $79 + tax based upon double occupancy.
Tickets for the dinner will be $40 per person, on the menu will be:
Bread & Butter
Salad
Clam Chowder
Choice of Baked Cheese Lasagna or Chicken Cordon Bleu
Roasted Red Bliss Potatoes or Au Gratin Potatoes
Grean Bean Almondine or Glazed Carrots
Assorted Desserts
Coffee and tea & non alcoholic drinks
There will also be a cash bar. As always this is a garbbed event, please come in your finest. I let the restaurant know that we would be well dressed and gave them links to Blue Beard and Red Beard's pictures so they would know how fantastic we will all look! Tickets will be avaiable in Ye Olde Shoppe.
Also of note, the infamous NERennies mug, a collaborative work between Sir Charles of Dragon's Paradox and Tat2Missy of Art Gecko Tatoo will be raffled off at the dinner. Raffle tickets, $1 for 1 or 6 for $5 will be available in Ye Olde Shoppe and the night of the dinner. (Photo coming soon)
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Some news and a challenge.
We are back from a wonderful weekend at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire. Saturday was absolutely gorgeous with wonderful weather and record breaking opening day attendance numbers! There was a feel of excitement in the air with the new site layout and it seemed to me there was much more interaction both between those working at faire and those attending, it was a long and fantastic day. Sunday brought rain and a few die hard faire goers but it too had it's own positive bits. There was a touching surprise wedding proposal which had more than one person a bit teary eyes... good thing for the misty weather, and as I was walking around I saw a good deal of other merchants milling about, talking with their neighbors and interacting with cast which we don't find ourselves able to do as easily when the days are jam packed with patrons. It was a marvelous opportunity for grand conversations with people we get to see far too infrequently and because of those conversations I am very thankful for the rain... though I do hope it will be the only foul weather day of the run During one of the conversational opportunities over the weekend I was able to chat with the infamous Red Beard the pirate (aka Eric of CTRF). I mentioned that I had noticed he wasn't floating around Saturday taking some of the amazing pictures that we all love to look at and that I hoped he would be out on Sunday. It was then that he gave me the awful news.... his cannon is broken! It seems that over time taking pictures causes SLR cameras to sort of eat themselves, with every picture taken you slowly wear down the shutter assembly and once it's done... it's done. Without replacing the camera, there would be no CTRF 09 pictures for all of us to oogle and enjoy. No browsing through hundreds of amazing faire photos taken from the Red Beard perspective hoping just a little bit to find one of yourself. It seems to me that a CTRF season without flipping through the albums of Red Beard and Blue Beard both is just not complete. With the two perspectives they present, and any good pirate knows that to cannons are better than one, it makes it possible for those who are unable to visit the faire to get a true glimpse into the fun, interactions and amazingly good times. Though I tried to paint a picture in your mind at the start of this post, I am not as good at it as I would like to be... it would be beneficial to be able to now point you to a couple of links where you too can go and see some of what I saw over the weekend. Blue Beard was milling about over the weekend and I did indeed seem him taking photos so I am sure at some point very soon we will have those for all to enjoy, but sadly, with Red Beard left cannon less there will be no CTRF 09 first weekend photos for all to enjoy. But wait! Red Beard may have no photos from the first weekend... but WE can make sure that he is able to be out sneaking about "shooting" the unsuspecting the rest of the run with a brand new Cannon! $1000 is a lot of money I think for any of us, especially these days. I know *I* don't have that just laying around collecting dust, I'm sure you probably don't either, and after talking to Eric I know that he does not. What I do know is that we are community, we help our neighbors when we are able... even in small ways, and through community we make possible those things that we thought impossible. That said here is what I ask of you: Go to http://nerennies.chipin.com/erics-ts-camera to make a donation. $1, $10, $100, what ever you are able to do is greatly appreciated. My challenge to everyone is to raise the money Eric needs over the course of this work week so that he can have his new camera ready for next weekend! Please remember that things at NERennies might not be quite the same if not for all of the time and energy that Eric donated to the cause before Keith et all were asked to take over. Not to mention all of the incredible photos he has taken of so many of us over the years, I know I have a bunch and maybe you do as well... or maybe you will be a target in the future, but that can't happen without the cannon! He has done, and continues to do, great things for our community and beyond and if you have ever had fortune to meet and chat with him you know that he is a wonderful and deserving friend. If you would like to peruse current and past dueling cannon pictures you may find Blue Beard's site here and Red Beard's site here
Finally, after far too many annoucements regarding the closing of faires, there is some good news to report about faires.
Jeff Mach, the mind behind Wicked Faire, has decided to launch a full scale outdoor festival. I asked Jeff what the motivation for starting a faire now was.
Jeff:
You know, the Wicked Faire had a really serious fight on its hands for the third Faire, and the community came together to help us. We wanted to thank them, and that’s part of why we had the “Chocolate Factory” theme this past year. The Chocolate Factory, in turn, got the most support of any event I’ve done. For years, I’ve wanted to give back to the community by living out one of my own dreams: putting on a full-scale outdoor Faire. I’ve wanted to do that since I was 13. With the success of the Chocolate Factory, we finally had the ability to do so.
I also asked him about the acts that he had scheduled, but he was still playing that close to the vest. I have heard rumors of Daniel Greenwolf attending, and perhaps doing something we have never seen from him before.
He has recruited some new talent as well as some old hands, his fight team is lead by NERennie members Artimis Lebeau and Carlos MacRican. I expect there will be some interesting stage combat scenes, as the two of them have been working since late 2008 on these scenes.
The last question I had for Jeff was whether or not this was his first venture away from "Wicked Style" events?
Not at all. I’ve been doing events for fourteen years now. I’ve done cuisine expos, cult movie events, game events, and music festivals, to name a few. But Wicked style events have been my proudest achievement so far - they’ve been the first events to really incorporate all the elements I’ve wanted to have in one place at one time.
So make sure you go out and support this new faire, which runs July 18th-19th, July 25th-26th and August 1st and 2nd.
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