Steampunk Crossover

[Lady Nicolette]

A group at Sherwood plays nothing but old music AND instruments. I have never in my life seen so many strange and fascinating instruments as they use. Their music is un-amplified, and centuries-old. They explain where it came from, who wrote it, if known, and my wife and I find it a wonderful program. Sad to say that not many stop by in support.

That sounds like a wonderful group!

[Lady Nicolette]

With the perspective of about 40 years of doing this, it does seem like the Faires that were nonprofits do seem to have had a lot more historical bent to them.  The old RFotM sounds like it was a wonderful Faire.  The corporate/for-profit structure seems to bow more to the money-gods, but that is the way of the world.  I'm glad I got to experience the old ones the way that they were and glad that the Faire still exist even in their present incarnations.

[Rowan MacD]

 Agreed.   Siouxland is the only non profit faire that I know of right now.  It is truly a delight to attend.  The patrons have put a lot into getting this off the ground, including attracting some of the known acts like Twigg, Tortuga Twins and the Lost boys.  Since the faire is the first weekend of June-I guess its 'pre -season' for them.  They try out some of their new material too.  They did have Celtic Games there this year.
   I don't get that the only model that the PTB think will make money is a mish-mash of Marde Gras and Carnival with a little Sturgis bike rally thrown in.
    Renaissance themes seem to be incidental.

[Merlin the Elder]

A group at Sherwood plays nothing but old music AND instruments. I have never in my life seen so many strange and fascinating instruments as they use. Their music is un-amplified, and centuries-old. They explain where it came from, who wrote it, if known, and my wife and I find it a wonderful program. Sad to say that not many stop by in support.

That sounds like a wonderful group!

They are. As RenStarr guessed, they're called the Worthy Waites of Whimsey.  As far as I know, they only do Sherwood.

[dbaldock]

Their web page - http://www.worthywaites.com/