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THE 24th Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival
Looking for an uplifting good time?
Pinal County, AZ (2011)– It’s easy! Take a day trip out to the wildly
popular and entertaining Arizona Renaissance Festival. The annual faire
begins at 10 am every Saturday, Sunday, and on Presidents’ Day Monday,
from February 11th through April 1st.
Today’s audience wants to be more then spectators. They want to
participate and be surrounded by their entertainment as they seek to
escape the everyday world. At the Festival, the audience is a special
guest in another place and time.
This Festival transports visitors to an European style country fair
filled with an agreeable rabble of knights, rogues, royalty and
craftsmen, all roaming throughout a 30-acre charm filled village with
200 quaint shops, 12 stages of non-stop entertainment, an arena for
full-contact armored jousting, kitchens, pubs, and people powered games
and rides.
All the Festival is a stage with a cast featuring more than 2,000
brightly costumed actors, dancers, and musicians. These are the amazing
people who populate this bustling fair to ensure a good time for the
nearly 250,000 visitors who mingle into the endlessly wacky and
unpredictable medieval mayhem.
The Renaissance Festival experience is meeting and interacting with
these colorful characters, shopping for arts and crafts, and taking in a
selection of over 150 shows every event day. There is a great variety of
food for feasting, and a bevy of beverages including Medieval
Margaritas, Da Vinci Coladas, Dukes of Daiquiri, wine, honey mead, beers
and ales, along with soft drinks and lemonade.
A popular attraction at the Festival are the live jousting tournaments
held three times daily, complete with knights on charging horses,
clanging weapons and a great deal of braggadocio.
The 16th century Festival is home to many popular traditions including
chomping down on a giant roasted turkey leg, and also features
demonstrations of time honored crafts such as weaving, glass blowing,
blacksmithing and pottery throwing.
A most special event within this giant event is The Pleasure Feast. This
is a two hour six course medieval feast with live music and comedy
entertainment, all you can eat and drink, plus festival gifts and
souvenirs. With limited seating twice daily, advance feast reservations
are recommended.
WHEN YOU GO:
What: The 24th Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival
Where: East of Apache Junction on US Highway 60, near the Superstition
Mountains.
When: Eight consecutive weekends (Saturdays, Sundays, and Presidents’
Day Monday) from February 11 through April 1, 2012. The Festival runs
from 10a.m. until 6:00 p.m., rain or shine.
Tickets: Advanced discount tickets available for purchase and print at
home on-line www.RenFestInfo.com or at Fry’s are $20 for adults and $10
for kids ages 5 – 12, children under 5 are always FREE. Tickets
purchased at the Festival Box Office are $2 more. Discounts tickets for
seniors (60 and older) are $19, only available at the Festival Box
Office. Parking is FREE courtesy of Fry’s.
Information: www.RenFestInfo.com
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