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2008 Update: Unfortunately we will not be holding the Pittsburg Renaissance Faire in 2008. If you're looking for a great Scottish Faire in August, please check out the Willits Scottish Renaissance Faire on the 1st weekend of August in Willits, CA

Pittsburg Scottish Renaissance Festival

August 11th and 12th, 2007

Who's coming!

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The Guilds/Troupes

Academie of Saint Clair
We are a mix of noble and middle-class characters, mostly noble, and we represent the dowager Countess of Devon and the family of one of her retainers, Sir Daniel Hawkridge, wife, children and servants.

Brotherhood Of The Black Flag
Welcome one and all, to the Porker's Sterne. An infamous dockside tavern, populated by all manor of outlaws, rogues, and miscreants. The most notorious of all being, of course, The Brotherhood Of The Black Flag. From the dark and mysterious glens of the Scottish highlands to the dangerous sea inlets of the Caribbean Islands, whether roving plunderer or a Barbary corsair, these members of the B.B.F. have found a home at the Porker's Sterne. A place where you can enjoy the serene live music from a table full of musicians playing a large selection from lilting Irish melodies to rowdy drinking songs. A place where patrons may break into uncanny melees of outstanding swordsmanship at any given time. A place where all manner of characters, some of world renown repute, others of the highest refinements, and others..well...not so much, come to congregate. And the wenches. Ah, don't forget the fine collection of bawdy and buxom wenches...

Highlander Warriors Kingdom of the Gael
Scottish Highlander We depict Scottish history during the time of Mary Queen of Scotts circa 1562. We can portray other time periods during Scottish history including but not limited to the Jacobite era.

House of Gordon
Our guild portrays the most prominent Catholic lords of Northern Scotland (Huntly, Sutherland, Marischal) and occassionally escorts Queen Margaret Tudor.

Knights of Santiago
We are a Spanish guild, Military and mostly nobility, or those who have risen to the station of knighthood in service to the King of Spain.

Merchants of the Phoenix
We all come from various places, travelling through the lands for many reasons. We recover goods, and gain the profit. Some may call us merchants others may call us pirates. We prefer to be called merchants. We sell, buy, and trade goods along the many trade routes, making stops into villages and cities alike before taking our leave back onto the open sea. May it be our knowledge, transport or our blades we make our way, and help you through yours.

Ottoman Traders' Guild
We portray and Ottoman Turkish trading caravan of the mid-1500's. During the Renaissance, for our purposes 1520 - 1600, trade was happening either through walking caravans traveling from city to city or by merchant ship. Our caravan travels established trade routes starting in Constantinople and traveling "around the known world". We are primarily a Trading Caravan and represent the several different classes: merchant traders, entertainers, fighting men, slaves, and thieves, that would have joined on caravan. We have an established stage show that includes mid-eastern music and dancing, and also teach the public in our encampment.

Pirates of the Rose
We are a gang of nasty pirates! We rob and pillage and we pass by weathly ports. We are a guild of young people who like to have fun. We are wild and silly and we want everyone around us to be having as much fun as we are!

Royal St. Gyles Lancers
Scottish Nobles with army of lance and sword carrying soldiers. Games for mundanes to play. Sword fighting, and support for other battles. Lancers for battles, in black and burgandy costume. Knightings and Royalty as faires permit.

Royal White Eagle
Royal White Eagle presents historic events and the way of life of Polish aristocrats of the mid-1500s. We re-create the lifestyle of traveling noblemen of the era: the people, ideas and passions of the times. The talented cast combines theatrical skills with historic research to bring a small piece of Renaissance court to visitors of Renaissance-themed events.

St Andrews Guild
The Saint Andrews Noble Order of Royal Scots is a Renaissance Guild. We are a non-profit organization and reenactment group that portrays the court of Mary, Queen of Scotland, as it was in the year 1562. The members of Saint Andrews guild are diverse but with some things in common; a love of history, a desire to entertain, and a commitment to have fun as we practice our hobby of historically accurate reenactment. We give the public a living diorama to enjoy as we bring an exciting period of Scottish history to life. A time filled with pageantry, chivalry, danger and intrigue. It's a LOT of fun and we hope you enjoy our show!

St. Dismas Renaissance Guild
Scottish-English Borderers. Reivers, fighters and entourage of titled Border Lord

St. John's Guild
Reenactment of the Knights of St. John. A multinational, religous military organization. Most of our members portray English, a couple Irish.

St. Maximilian Landsknecht Re-Enactment Guild
Saint Maximilian Landsknecht Re-enactment Guild portrays mercenaries from the Holy Roman Empire, which occupied modern-day Germany, Austria, Hungry, and northern Italy. Our goal is to bring the year 1536 to life by matching period sources as close as possible, demonstrating historical martial life, and explaining our lives in character.

St. Michael's Salle d'Armes
We are the traveling branch of the Flemish fencing guild. We demonstrate and teach patrons about the art of the sword (longsword, rapier, sidesword, etc). In addition, we show and discuss clothing, cooking and medicine.

St. Sebastians
St. Sebastians portrays a group of archers, their families, and supporting craftsmen.

St.Charles (english justice court)
Saint Charles Guild is a military gathering of mostly good, mostly English folk. We are responsible for the running of a justice court as well as a fully functional tavern. We are men and women of various types of nobility as well as middle class and peasants.

The Guild of Santa Maria
We are a historical re-enactment group that performs at Renaissance Faires and other events along the West Coast and beyond. We portray an ambassadorial entourage from the Medici Court in Florence sent to call upon the Courts of Elizabeth and Mary as they travel throughout their own countryside in an attempt to avoid London's summer bouts of the Plague. From our encampment we wait until Her Majesty has time to have an audience and in the interim we spend our days haggling with the local merchants in working out new trade agreements, drilling our troops should the need arise for a military action, receiving and sending dispatches, and holding court - and in short, trying to make the best of being so far from home. In addition to entertaining the faire's audience, we also seek to educate, both though continual improvisational theater directed both at other performers as well as towards any patron who would care to join in the play, and through activities such as period weapons instruction, blackwork, music, painting, and much more.

The Guilds of St. Barbara & St. Genesius
We are Olde School Renaissance Productions, Inc. a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit corporation, we operate as the Guilds of St. Barbara’s (who specialize in Weapons and Armaments – they are crafts people) and St. Genesius (who specialize in dance & music). We are known, collectively, as Dance and Destruction (see our website www.danceanddestruction.org). We set up an encampment complete with period games, crafts and “mini” trebuchet. We have several scheduled trebuchet demonstrations each day, as well as several dance performances/lessons. We have experience interacting with both the Scottish and English courts and are always willing to dance for them or instruct them. We are a child friendly/patron oriented group.

The Villayge Idyots
We are a group of street entertainers bent on causing all kinds of entertaining "trouble" in the streets of faire. Made up of peasants (and a handful of pirates!) from mixed nationalities (mostly English and Scottish), our sole purpose is to bring laughter and merriment throughout the streets of the faire by playing dozens of games and performing dozens of humorous acts that are sure to have visitors and patrons alike clutching their sides in laughter. We leave almost no stone unturned, but are sure to keep it appropriate for the wee ones as well. A handful of our members are also crew members of the pirate ship Reaper, the nemesis crew of the Privateers of the Dauntless who, when the Dauntless is in attendance at a faire, provide a massive crowd-drawing act of peril, tragedy, and comedy for an unforgettable event that thousands have loved and thousands more are sure to enjoy.

Thistle House Actor's Guild
Guild Master & Mistress Cheryl & Andrew Whitney Guild Secretary Kathy Wells Nationality: Isle of Man, Peasant, Merchant, Crafter, Noble, Royal Court

 

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