10th - 2014

The 10th Annual Renaissance Festival Awards

Special thanks to the following sponsors:

• Renaissance Magazine
• Marc Gunn’s Celtic Invasion
• Renaissance Festival Podcast

Renaissance Festivals –
Best Renaissance Festival

1. Bristol Renaissance Festival
2. Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival
3. Minnesota Renaissance Festival

Best New Renaissance Festival (3 years or younger)

1. Nottingham Renaissance Festival
2. BlackRock Medieval Festival
3. Oregon Renaissance Festival of Hillsboro

New Music – Best New CD Released in 2014

1. Bail Money by the Bilge Pumps
2. Pieces of Eight/Treasures of Old by the Musical Blades
3. Pirates Evermore, The Jolly Rogers

New Music – Best New Musical Show of 2014 (group or solo, on stage or in the street)

1. The McGuire Brothers
2. Joyful Noyse
3. Chaste Treasure

Stage Shows – Best Musical Group

1. Tartanic
2. Righteous Blackguards
3. Sirena

Best Non-Musical Group

1. Barely Balanced
2. The Tortuga Twins
3. Duo of Woo

Best Music Solo Show

1. Cast in Bronze
2. Dr. Rev. Mr. Cheeks Miller
3. Alexander James Adams

Best Non-Musical Solo Show

1. Moonie the Magnificent
2. Zilch the Torysteller
3. Adam Crack: Fire Whip

Best Comedy Musical Show (comedy performance, group or solo)

1. Righteous Blackguards
2. Musical Blades
3. Hey Nunny Nunny

Best Non-Musical Comedy Show (non-musical, comedy performance, group or solo)

1. Moonie the Magnificent
2. Stickbow Archery Shooting Show
3. Don Juan and Miguel

Street Performances – Best Solo Street Performance (one person, musical or non-musical, on the streets and primarily NOT on stage)

1. Gabriel the Plague Doctor
2. Twig the Fairy
3. Angus the Scott

Best Group Street Performance (musical or non-musical, on the streets and primarily NOT on stage)

1. Bristol Buskin Frolic
2. Fantastikals
3. Beefcake and Olive

Specialty Shows – Best Bawdy Show (primarily Adult-Oriented, musical or non-musical, on stage or in the street)

1. Iris and Rose, Wild and Thorny
2. The Tortuga Twins
3. Duo of Woo

Best Stage Combat Group (on stage or in the street)

1. Dirk and Guido: The Swordsmen
2. By the Sword – Bristol Renaissance Faire
3. Red Griffin Productions Living Chess

Best Jousting Troupe

1. Noble Cause Productions
2. The Jousters!
3. Heroic Knights of Old

Best Dance Troupe (on stage or in the street)

1. Bristol Buskin Frolic
2. Masala Gypsy Dancers
3. Vodca Family

Best Children’s Show (musical or non-musical, on stage or in the street, group or solo)

1. Fool Hearty
2. Cutlass Cooking
3. Gypsy Geoff – Fire Circus Show

Best Historical Show (most informational or period accurate, musical or non-musical, on stage or in the street, group or solo)

1. Stickbow Archery Shooting Show
2. Bristol’s Royal Falconer
3. St. Andrew’s Noble Order of Royal Scots

Miscellaneous – Best Shop Vendor

1. Mockingbird Studio
2. Pendragon Costumes
3. Moresca Clothing & Costume

Best Faire Photography

1. Michael Ulrich Photography
2. Deborah Grosmark Photography
3. Joe Foley Photography

Best Faire Web Community

1. PaRenFaire.net
2. Bristol Renaissance Faire
3. RenaissanceFestival.com Forums

Best Food

1. Turkey Leg
2. Scottish Eggs
3. Steak on a Stick

Best Drink

1. Mead
2. Sassafrass
3. Beer