Step back in time and enjoy the magic, juggling, storytelling, music, food, drinks, crafts, games, and performances of another age in this replica of a 16th-century village.
Regular entertainment includes live armored jousting, acrobatics, dance from Demzarah Gypsies, comedy such as Christophe the Insultor, the New Minstrel Revue, and "live mermaids and monsters" at the Mythical Monster Museum.
Theme weekends (listed below) add additional entertainment and competitions. Most include either a free beer or wine tasting and a renewal of vows at 11am (check in at the gate if you're interested).
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Each theme weekend also has a related pub crawl for an additional fee.
Pets are permitted at the festival with a $10 admission fee and registration form. Discount tickets ($3 off regular admission price) are available at MOSI and participating Walgreens and Circle K stores.
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NOTE: March 23 is "Festival Friday," an educational day for students and chaperones to visit the festival. The festival is open to the public that day, however.
Here are the theme weekends:
Feb. 18 and 19: "Highland Fling" (includes a kilt competition, Highland dancers, a Celtic village, and Highland games)
Feb. 25 and 26: "Wonders of the World" (includes a grape stomp, a world market, a BBQ competition, and state belly-dancing championship)
March 3 and 4: "Buccaneer Beer Fest" (includes arm-wrestling championships, pieces of eight, walk the plank, swab the deck, and a Pet Fest market)
March 10 and 11: "Wine, Chocolate and Romance" (includes a grape stomp, a "fudge fling," a couples pie-eating contest, and a wine and chocolate festival)
March 17 and 18: "Shamrocks and Shenanigans" (includes Irish dancers, a kilt competition, a Celtic village, and Highland games)
March 24 and 25: "High Seas Adventure" (includes walk the plank, swab the deck, a grape stomp, a tattoo competition, a High Seas market, royal fencing competition, and a Jack Sparrow look-a-like competition)
March 31 and April 1: "German Invasion: Halfway to Oktoberfest" (includes a royal archery tournament, a German market, a best-beard competition, a bratwurst-eating competition, an alpine-yodeling competition, and a battle-cry competition)