Joust
Watch the live jousting everyday at the Festival. Cheer for your favorite knight and revel in the excitement!
Held Daily at 11:00am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm & 5:00pm
Morris Dancers
Minnesota Traditional Morris is a men’s English folk dance team dancing a style of Morris, originating in the Cotswold Hills of central England— hence the style is known as Cotswold Morris. Morris dances are performed by from 1 to 8 team members dancing to music provided by violin, melodeon, pipe & tabor, even the voices of the dancers themselves. It is exuberant, boisterous, and vital fun!
Founded in the autumn of 1974 MTM was shooting the curl of the 70’s folk awareness wave. The team immediately began developing dance traditions and what easier way than to steal them from the guys who’d been doing them for centuries. Which is what everybody was doing in those days with the help of the dedicated founder of the Winchester Morris Men, Lionel Bacon, who traveled the Cotswold’s in the mid-Twentieth Century and documented as many of the local styles as he could. In part, it’s thanks to Sir Lionel that the Morris style of traditional folkdance is alive and living in the America’s today.
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Royal Scottish Dancers
The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society – Twin Cities (Minnesota) Branch is a non-profit organization of individuals interested in learning and participating in the art of Scottish country dancing. You Don’t Have to Be Scottish! We are teens and adults of all ages and ethnicities who enjoy music, dancing, and good company. No prior dance experience is necessary to get started and partners are not required. The group holds regular weekly classes, socials dances, and mini-workshops in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota (USA). Our major annual events are our beginner-friendly Fàilte Ball and our Grand Ball. Members of the group also do performances and demonstrations.
The Twin Cities Branch was established in 1975 as a local branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Society was founded in 1923 and now has over 25,000 members in 170 branches around the world.
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Danger Committee
The Danger Committee is an incredible combination of juggling, knife throwing, spine-tingling thrills, and hilarious comedy. They have performed on national television and at theatres, festivals and corporate events across the country.
Sponsored by The Brave New Workshop.
Bakery Stage – 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm, 2:30pm, 4:30pm & 5:30pm
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Fandazzi
Fandazzi Fire Circus is a live music and fire performance troupe that was founded in 2004 to bring the mystery, magic, and bright presence of a gypsy family to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. They are an ever-evolving Twin Cities based fire circus performing Live Music, Dance, and feats of MORE FIRE!!!!
Gypsy Stage – 10:30am, 11:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm & 5:00pm
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Feast Masters – Jim & Laszlo
Two recognizable faces around the Renaissance Festival include Jim and Laszlo, the hilarious Feast Masters of the Feast of Fantasy!
Bad Manor – 11:00am, 2:00pm & 4:45pm
Johnny Phoenix
Weaving comic wit amid impressive feats of escapism, fire artistry, and the supernatural has won Johnny Phoenix the title of “Danger Comedian.” “If people walk away thinking they too can laugh at the impossible, then I’ve done my job,” concludes Johnny.
Crown Stage – 11:30am, 1:00pm, 2:30pm & 4:00pm
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Oops! The Entertainer
Also known as the “Danger Freak”, Oops! has studied the ways of the classic sideshow and will make your jaw drop right into your lap. He loves to test the body’s limitations, whether lying on a bed of nails, walking across broken glass or blowing giant fireballs. Dancing with danger is the thrill that keeps him going. Want to see a bad idea? He’s your guy.
Treetop Stage – 10:15, 12:15, 2:15 & 4:15
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Puke & Snot
Puke and Snot are boldly approaching their 47th year at their home festival in Minnesota. Their blend of two-man vaudeville and overblown Shakespearean acting styles has made them a must-see show wherever they show up.
Legend Stage – 10:30am, 12:00pm, 1:30pm, 3:30pm & 5:00pm
Robin Hood and The Merry Men
Robin Hood and the Merry Men Show
A show for the bold — or at least they think so! Watch the antics of our favorite outlaw, Robin Hood, and his Merry Men and women, Little John, Maid Marion, Much the Miller, and Will Scarlet. A show for a child of every age! When they are not in Sherwood, watch for the Merry Men throughout the village as they battle it out with the Lord High Sheriff and his villainous cohorts!
Gypsy Stage – 10:00am, 12:30pm, 2:00pm, 3:00pm & 4:00pm
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The Wacky Chickens
The Wacky Chicken Show uses the age-old metaphor of the chicken and egg as symbols of life, weaving a hysterically funny, ultimately thoughtful, and joyful story of human yearning, failure, and spiritual triumph—while clucking, strutting, and laying eggs. Lloyd Brant and Rosie Cole have performed their Daffy Duck inspired show across the USA.
Witchwood Stage – 12:00pm, 1:00pm & 2:00pm
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Tuey the Juggler
Performing stunts based in the classic skills of his craft, Tuey’s show is anything but old fashioned. He goes well beyond the usual display of juggling skills to include a wide array of manipulations, thus, “I’ve never seen that before!” is a common response to Tuey’s show. Audiences also love Tuey’s unassuming, friendly style, and the only thing they do more than applaud during his show… is laugh.
Grove Stage – 11:45am, 1:00pm, 2:00pm, 3:15pm & 4:15pm
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Tortuga Twins
Got Comedy? The Tortuga Twins are improv comedy storytellers extraordinaire—which is not an easy thing to say with a mouth full of laughter. Outrageously unpredictable and unstoppably hilarious, these three “twins” present a variety of audience-interactive tales! Using razor-sharp wits and lighting-fast comic reflexes, they bring smiles, laughter, and occasional amazement to audiences throughout North America.
Crown Stage – 11:45am, 12:15pm, 1:45pm, 3:15pm & 5:00pm
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Zilch the Tory Steller
His name is Terry Foy, although you might know him better as Zilch the Storyteller. Er, ah, Torysteller. The stories he tells have a bit of a twist to them. He spalks in toonerisms. Ah, he talks in spoonerisms. Citching one’s swonsonants fack and borth, worning your Turds around. It’s serfectly pimple. You just have to tink thaster than you falk!
Treetop Stage – 10:45am, 12:45pm, 3:00pm & 4:30pm
Baratok Bellydance
Barátok Belly Dance captivates audiences with their big, bright, high-energy performances of Middle Eastern Dance Arts. Barátok means friends in Hungarian which translates perfectly on stage with their fun, feel-good performances fit for the whole family. As resident performers of the Renaissance Festival, you can catch Barátok Belly Dance on the The Pavilion Stage, Special Events and as a feature act of the Feast of Fantasy.
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Cale the Juggler
Comedic fire juggling, fire breathing, and world class precarious stunts. Cale breaks down and rebuilds Newtonian Law in a fit of primed crackerjack fury. A truly unpredictable, all inclusive show suitable for all ages and everything in between!
