The popular Carolina Renaissance Festival, a combination of outdoor theater, circus, arts and crafts fair, jousting tournament, and feast, returns for 8 consecutive weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, October 1 through November 20. You can win tickets from us!
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Each Festival day is filled with an abundance of attractions appropriate for all age groups. Sixteen stages packed with costumed performers offer a unique mix of continuous music, dance, comedy, and circus entertainment. Swimming mermaids, birds of prey falconry demonstrations, and the popular jousting tournament with horse mounted armored knights battling three times daily are all examples of the endless entertainment options offered. The shows are always spontaneous, and you will never know what happens next, on stage or off.
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Attendees are encouraged to come as they are or to join in the spirit by visiting the village in costumes of all types. Each Festival weekend has unique themed activities with many having costume contests with prizes and discount admission opportunities. Returning popular themed weekends like Halloween Daze & Spooky Knights, Pirate’s Christmas, and time Travelers’ Weekend embrace attendees in non-renaissance costumes such as those dressed as superheroes (and villains) and characters inspired by Harry Potter, Games of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and more. Those wishing to wear a costume can acquire them at the village costume rental shop located just outside the Festival gates. Also available for rent are wagons, strollers, wheelchairs, and new for 2022; motorized scooters.
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Also new this year:
- New Entertainments: 4 new Minstrel’s, an end of day drum jam, Songs and Stories by the Fairy Godmother, and Franklin Fertilizer’s Dung Show (located bythe Petting Farm).
- New delicious food items: Transylvania Chimney Cakes and Chateau Hibbele’scharcuterie on a stick, drunken mushrooms, brisket macaroni and cheese, and barbacoa tacos.
- New Ticketing: Now date specific, tickets are available only online at www.carolina.renfestinfo.com, while supplies last.
- New Hours: The Festival now opens at 9:30 AM and closes at dusk. Arrive early!• New Parking & Traffic: New staffing, management, and logistics in effort to mitigate event traffic impacts. Park free courtesy of Harris Teeter.
Returning favorites include an extensive array of vendors offering jewelry, clothing of renaissance and medieval fashion, handmade art and deฬcor, pottery and blown and torched glass demonstrations, and activities for children that include people-powered amusement rides and countryside faire games such as the castle climbing wall, archery and tomato tossing at a fool.
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The Carolina Renaissance Festival is the fall destination for quality entertainment in the Carolinas. So, bust out your sense of good cheer, leave your cares behind, and spend a day at the wildly popular and entertaining time machine known as the Carolina Renaissance Festival and Artisan Market Place!
