Entertainment
Magazine: Arizona
Celebrating 31 Years of Cheers at the 2019
Arizona Renaissance Festival!
The
Arizona Renaissance Festival is one of the largest
entertainment events of its kind in the United States.
Travel to a re-creation of a 16th century European village
this coming winter and spring 2019!
The
2019 Arizona Renaissance Festival will be held February
9th through March 31st, every Saturday and Sunday and
Presidents' Day Feb. 18th, Festival hours are 10:00am
until 6:00pm, rain or shine.
Index to 2019 Arizona
Renaissance Festival Activities:
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Visit Arizona Renaissance Festival's Special
Events page for weekend festivities.
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Purchase tickets to the Arizona Reniassance Festival online:
This web section provides new
and updated information for this year's renaissance festival
family entertainment and events.
The Renaissance Festival is
held near Apache Junction, Arizona- between Phoenix and
Tucson. Get a map and directions to
the festival grounds. Check the latest Apache
Junction & Renaissance Weather reports with
updated rain maps and temperatures.
The Arizona Renaissance is a
medieval amusement park, a 14-stage theater, a 30-acre
circus, an arts and crafts fair, a jousting
tournament and a Pleasure Feast
-- all rolled into one non-stop, day-long family adventure!
Walk through our gates to be transported back to a simpler,
more jovial, time.
There are multiple stages of
nonstop entertainment; music, comedy, falconry, dance,
mermaids and acrobatics. Foolish pleasures mix with artisan
treasures as you shop, eat and mingle with a cast of nearly
2,000 colorfully costumed characters.
Explore the village marketplace
with over 200 storybook shops, studios and galleries filled
with unique arts and crafts, handmade wares, kitchens and
pubs, games and people-powered rides. Participate in
interactive kids games and people-powered rides; Da Vinci’s
Flying Machine, The Slider Joust, Piccolo Pony—a rocking
horse bigger than an elephant! The Dragon Climbing Tower,
Castle Siege, the Maze, Archery Range and much more!
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Main Events for the 2019 Renaissance Festival
The live jousting tournaments are one of the festival’s
most popular attractions. Armored nights on charging
steeds take up their lances and battle for the queen’s
honor. Cheer on your favorite armored knight at one of the
three daily jousting tournaments in the 5,000-seat arena.
Pleasure Feast goblet.
In addition to the revelry, the festival offers food fit
for a King. Attend the Pleasure Feast and be treated like
a true Royal while you savor five courses of fine food,
ample drynk, and enjoy an hour and a half of raucous
Renaissance entertainment at its best!
The Pleasure Feast is a
one-and-a-half hour five course medieval feast with live
music and comedy entertainment, fine food and ample drink,
plus festival gifts and souvenirs. With limited seating
twice daily, advance feast reservations are recommended.
Food is plentiful and available throughout the village.
ååThe menu is diverse with such offerings as
steak-on-a-stake, vegetable and meat pies, pastas, bread
bowls filled with hearty stews and more. And who can
forget the smoked turkey legs?! The desserts are decadent.
Try the crepes or a variety of other sweet treat
surprises! The Pleasure Feast, held twice daily, includes
admission to the Festival.
The most unique experience at the Renaissance Festival is
the interaction with actors on the street who make
everyone a part of the VILLAGE AT PLAY.
Kids will love the interactive
games and people-powered rides; Da Vinci’s Flying Machine,
The Slider Joust, Piccolo Pony— a rocking horse bigger
than an elephant! There is also the Dragon Climbing Tower,
Castle Siege, the Maze, Archery Range and much more!
Those washer wenches don’t just act silly on the stage,
they make sure their audience members make fools of
themselves too. The King is not just some guy in a crown;
when you meet royalty at the Festival, it is hard not to
bow with everyone else.
Maybe you will be asked to carry a secret message for the
Lord Sheriff, or you may find yourself the object of a
poet's admiration or scorn. Don’t shy away from these
encounters...you’ll have so much more fun if you jump
right in! Find out what events are happening
this year at the Az Ren Fest.
What to do at the AZ Renaissance Festival
There are so many things to do at the AZ
Renaissance Festival that one needs to spend an entire day to
experience the full event.
Browse over 200 elaborately adorned shops
offering an array of traditional goods surrounded among 14
stages of entertainment.
Walk among more than 2,000 brightly costumed
actors, dancers, and musicians who roam the medieval replica
village providing entertainment.
The Renaissance Festival experience is meeting
and interacting with these colorful characters, shopping for
arts and crafts, and taking in a selection of over 150 shows
every event day.
There is a great variety of food for feasting, and a bevy of
beverages including Medieval Margaritas, Da Vinci Coladas,
Dukes of Daiquiri, wine, turkey legs, honey mead, beers and
ales, along with soft drinks and lemonade.
Renaissance street shows and entertainment
One of the most popular attractions at the
AZ Ren Fest is the live jousting
tournaments held three times daily, complete with knights on
charging horses, clanging weapons and a great deal of
braggadocio.
The 16th century Festival is home to many
popular traditions including chomping down on a giant
roasted turkey leg, and also features demonstrations of time
honored crafts such as weaving, glass blowing, blacksmithing
and pottery throwing. Find out more about this year's
events, entertainment and watch videos at the AZ
Renaissance Festival.
 New
book on "Treasures of the Santa Catalina Mountains"
The legends of lost mines, lost
cities and a lost mission in the Santa Catalina Mountains,
north of Tucson, Arizona have been passed down by word of
mouth for generations. Now, learn the full history behind
the legends of the infamous Iron Door Mine, the Mission of
Santa Catalina and the Lost City of the Catalinas. This book
also covers the history of American mining in Oracle and the
Catalinas- including the famous Buffalo Bill Cody's mine
Campo Bonito. Read sample chapters, download a free PDF
sample of the book and watch videos from the "Treasures
of the Santa Catalina Mountains."
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at the AZ Renaissance Fest
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Festival and Robert Zucker, EMOL.org
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