Arizona Renaissance Festival
Arizona Renaissance Festival
2012 Dates – Saturdays and Sundays February 11 – April 1 And Monday February 20 President’s Day!
Including 12 stages of live shows, an outdoor circus, an arts and crafts fair, jousting and a day long feast, the Arizona Renaissance Festival (ARF) is one of the most amazing fairs of the year. Starting in February ARF helps start the Ren Fair season. Apache Junction, AZ transforms into a small medieval/renaissance village.
Seeing as this fair is part of the Royal Faires family and the sister-faire of the Carolina Renaissance Festival you will see a lot of the same shows that you get to enjoy at the Carolina Festival. From the Tortuga Twins to Ded Bob and Hanlon-Lees there are some ren faire circuit favorites that are at this enormous fair each year. Besides the groups that travel the ren fair circuit you will see wome west coast favorites and some local acts that will blow your mind. Make sure to check out Nied Fyre and Ghazaal Beledi World Music & Dance when you attend.
The merchants that make up the artisan fair make this fair something to behold. To a look at the list below. There is a merchant for every taste. Looking for a sword: Starfire and Sabersmith are both at this fair. Looking for Pottery they have half a dozen potters. Jewelry? There is more jewelry at this fair then you will ever see anywhere else in one fair. Merchants at a ren fair have as much to do with making the fair work as the shows and the cast members that roam the streets. Royal Faires brings some of the best vendors and merchants together and that helps make the fairs they run at the top of the charts.
If you are in Arizona and you don’t make ARF a stop on your vacation you are missing out.
Entertainment:
- Ancient Art of Falconry
- Barely Balanced
- Bathos the Muse
- Cast in Bronze
- Clan Tynker
- The Ded Bob Sho
- Dextre Tripp
- Don Juan & Miguel
- Franko, Master Hypnotist
- Green Man
- Ghazaal Beledi Wolrd Music & Dance
- Gypsy Geoff
- Hanlon-Lees Action Theater – Theatrical Jousting
- Harpist Sarah Mullen
- Hey Nunnie Nunnie
- Jamila Lotus
- Jeremiah Wiggins
- London Broil
- Lord Marshall Law
- Mother & Father Goose
- Nied Fyre
- The Pirate Shantyman & Bonnie Lass
- The Puckerbrush Players
- The Raven
- Shamus the Insultor
- Tartanic
- Three Guys & a Bunch of Drums
- Thom Selectomy Comedy & Sword Swallowing
- Tortuga Twins
- Twig the Fairy
- The Whipmaster – Adam Crack
- Wyldmen
- Zilch the Torysteller
Merchants:
- Ancient Arts
- Amsbury’s Beads
- Andres & Chapman Glassblowing
- Ann Chamberlin Books
- Artsmyths
- Art Surgeon
- Ballena Bay Pewter
- Bard’s Musik Shoppe
- Bazarre Traders
- Benitez Jewelry
- Belrose Costume Rental Shop
- Birds of Play
- Black Swan
- Blue Moon Scorpios Studios
- Boss Wench
- Bows of the Risen Son
- Brasswood
- Broomhilde
- Bungled Jungle
- Burnt Mountain Crafts
- Busch Fine Arts Studio
- Cantastiks
- Captain’s Adorned Hair Ties
- Castle Creations
- Castles in the Air
- Catskill Mountain Moccasins
- Celestial Circus
- Celestial Windz
- Celtic Clay
- Chain Maille Fashions
- Chime-a-Lot
- Clay Images
- Clear Creations
- Cricket Hill Pottery
- Crysalis Hammocks
- Crystal Underground
- Dancing Glass Beadworks
- Ded Shoppe
- Deep Earth Rocks
- DoMBA
- Draecstone Glassworks
- Dragon Wings
- Dreamstress
- D’Vyne Wrytes
- Enchanted Hat
- Enchanted Images
- The English Potter
- Fairie Garden
- Fairytale Fynery
- Fairy Haven
- Fairywinks
- Fantasy Hairweaving
- Feathertree Silks
- Fellowship Foundry Pewtersmiths
- Fisher Pottery
- Fleur du Jour
- Garlic Festival Shop
- The Gilded Plume
- Global Scent Company
- Goodly Woods
- Greentree Weaving
- Grichels
- Gryphon Song Gems
- Gypsy Eyes
- Handpainted Capes & Hats
- Honorable Company of Metalsmiths
- Horn Shoppe
- Humpty, Dumpty, Before and After
- Imaginarium Galleries
- Indigo Turtle
- Irie Lights
- Iron Grip Blacksmith
- Jewelry by Da’Oud
- Jiva Silk Originals
- John Coiner Pottery
- Juggler’s Point
- K. Dopita Studios
- Knotty Lady
- LaVigne Leather
- Leanin Easy
- Light Fantastic
- Little River Woodworks
- Lofton Illustrations
- Mahalakshmi Henna
- Mahamudra Body Art
- Majestic Hair Flower
- McNabb Chapman
- Medieval Designs
- Medieval Metal
- Midsummer Knight’s Dream
- Morgan’s Mane
- Native Earth
- New Pterodactyl Leather
- Nilsson Jewelry
- Nouveau Designs
- Oddest Goddess
- Ophelia’s
- Osborne Leather
- Oulu Glass
- Patti Originals
- Pendragon Costumes
- Perfumed Dragon
- Pixie Pouche Shoppe
- P. Piper
- Pyrate’s Plunder
- Quicksilver Mint
- Ravensdaughter Designs
- Raven’s Glass
- Rena’s Leather
- Rice Creations
- A Roguish Highlander
- Royal Candlemaker
- RT Originals
- Sabersmith
- Sacred Grove Apothecary
- Sandal Shoppe
- Satori Masks
- Sheepskin Shoppe
- Siege the Day
- Single Tree
- Sky Chairs
- Sozra Jewelry and Art
- Spice Traders Teas
- Spice Traders Music
- Squire’s Attire
- Staffs by Gust
- Starfire Swords
- Starlit Skies
- Steven Overstreet Designs
- Tarnished Images
- Telluride Gold
- Thatcher’s Leather Artistry
- Toadstool Farm Art
- Traveler’s Treasures
- Twiggs & Berries
- Twisted Sister
- Two Sisters Soap Shoppe
- Uncommon Adornments
- Underhill Pavilions
- Under the Mango Tree
- Unicorn Clothing
- Unicorn Strings
- Unique Leather Works
- Village Clay Garden
- Whimsey Winks
- Whirlwood Magic Wands
- Window to the Soul
- Windwalker Moccasins
- Winged Creations II
- Wizard’s Wardrobe
- Woodbutchery
- Woodsong Instruments
- Xavier Gonzalez Ceramics
- Ye Olde Candlemaker
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