11th – 2015

The 11th Annual Renaissance Festival Awards of 2015Special thanks to the following sponsors:

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

Best Renaissance Festival

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

Best New Renaissance Festival 3 years or younger

1. Rosenvolk Medieval Festival
2. The Nottingham Festival
3. Carnevale Fantastico

Best New Musical Show

1. Bell Book and Canto
2. Better Than Nun
3. The Maguire Brothers

Best Musical Group Stage Show

1. Righteous Blackguards
2. Tartanic
3. Sirena

Best Non-Musical Group Stage Show

1. Barely Balanced
2. Washing Well Wenches
3. Wonder Elixir of Life

Best Music Solo Stage Show

1. Friar Finnegan
2. Cast in Bronze
3. Craig of Farrington

Best Non-Musical Solo Stage Show

1. MooNie the Magnif’Cent
2. Shakespeare Approves!
3. Zilch the Torysteller

Best Comedy Musical Stage Show

1. Musical Blades
2. Hey Nunny Nunny
3. 2 Merry Men

Best Non-Musical Comedy Stage Show

1. Tortuga Twins
2. Renaissance Rumble
3. Wise Fools Improv

Best Solo Street Performance

1. Gabriel the Plague Doctor
Vince Conaway
2. Twig the Fairy

Best Group Street Performance

1. Bristol Buskin Frolic
2. Queen Beatrice
3. Beefcake and Olive

Best Bawdy Show

1. Iris and Rose
2. Looney Lucy and Ploppy
3. Naughty Bawdy Brigade

Best Stage Combat Group Show

1. The Swordsmen: Dirk and Guido
2. Don Juan and Miguel
3. Bawdily Harm

Best Jousting Troupe

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

Best Dance Troupe

1. The Vodca Family
2. Danse Macabre from Southern CA
3. Black Isles Bellydance

Best Children’s Show

1. Cutlass Cooking
2. Fool Hearty
3. Unicorn Productions

Best Historical Show

1. Viking Encampment from MN
2. Saint Andrew’s Noble Order of Royal Scots
3. Renaissance Masters Pavilion

Best Shop Vendor

1. Mockingbird Studio
2. Pendragon Costumes
3. Fellowship Foundry

Best Faire Photography

1. Photography by Michael Ulrich
2. John Karpinsky
3. Ron Tencati Photography

Best Faire Web Community

1. PaRenFaire.net
2. RenaissanceFestival.com
3. Ren Faire Dating

Best Food

1. Turkey Legs
2. Scotch Eggs
3. Cheese Fritters

Best Drink

1. Mead
2. Beer
3. Sassafras