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Sep 25, 2011 15:53

Sun Sep 25 15:53:32 EDT 2011

anniemal's gone to the Maryland Renaissance Festival with her OkCupid buddy. He apparently got some steeply-discounted tickets. They had planned to go Saturday, but then the weather sounded better for today, and then Saturday turned out better than forecast ( Read more... )

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aome September 21 2016, 13:36:34 UTC

I am DYING to go to the MD RenFaire again - I took Will once, back in 1998 - and we haven't been since. We took the kids to the PA fair a couple of years ago; the PA fair is nice, but I still remember the MD one being nicer (and admission is cheaper, too). Doesn't look like we'll be able to make the trek before it closes this year, alas, but maybe next year. Do you go anymore?

rennfests syntonic_comma September 21 2016, 17:37:20 UTC

I think I've been back to the MDRF maybe once since I started going to Pennsic (12, + 1 skipped). I just don't drive as much these days, and it's farther than I'm likely to go for a day's diversion. (Even when I was performing there I would camp for the weekend rather than driving out twice.) I liked performing with Avalon (the recorder/voice quartet), but it didn't leave much time for seeing the other shows. The Capriccio Catch Club wasn't as satisfying as Avalon - some of the music wasn't "period", and I missed playing instruments. Avalon also had the advantage that I wasn't with them every weekend; losing 2 months+ of weekends for Capriccio created problems. (And Capriccio's rehearsals were farther away too.)

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Re: rennfests aome September 23 2016, 13:07:25 UTC

Will went to the NY rennfaire the year before we met; I think he and a buddy (and buddy's wife) just made a camping roadtrip out of it. I've never been, though.

NJ's rennfaire is pitiful; we went once, early in our marriage, and haven't bothered since. It's just one weekend, and it's really tiny.

If we do slog down to the MD faire eventually, we'll definitely let you know!

I've sung that Ave Regina Caelorum. :) Probably with Ad Hoc, as a matter of fact!

Re: rennfests syntonic_comma September 26 2016, 16:41:41 UTC

I don't recall singing the Victoria ARC with Ad Hoc, and it's not listed on the website as something we've done - but that list isn't complete. I thought it was new to me, but if not, that would account for why I didn't have any trouble reading it transposed (up 1/2 step - and my voice really liked that key). But I think it was new to me this summer. (I should check with Louise. ☺)

I'm guessing the NJ Faire must have started after I moved south. http://www.njrenfaire.com/aboutus.html
Looks like it's 3 weekends next year, but it started in 2009, so long after I moved to DC. It's got a very flashy website. (The kind that would not do well on my locked-down laptop, but I'm seeing it at the office.) Maybe this isn't even the same outfit.

There were 2 NY faires. The one closer to NYC is between Tuxedo and Sloatsburg (really) at the Sterling Forest ski resort. The other is in a town really named Sterling.