Cardiff Rose Swordsmen
We portray a Welsh-border English Militia unit, a "Trayned Bande" from the late Elizabethan era. We are active musketeers, doing black powder demonstrations at most events. Along with our Baggage Trayne of suttlers, cooks, and craftsmen, we depict all elements of late 16th C life and military drill. Our Field Kitchen has won the Cast Iron Chef competition several times, and features a display of period foods and cooking processes. We've escorted the Queen at Stafford Lake, Folsom and Placerville faires, providing guards with morions and halberds for Court use.

Castlewood Re-enactment Guild
Castlewood re-enactment guild portrays the household of Anthony Browne, Viscount Montague and his family. A noble must travel in style and that entails a large establishment all working to maintain the comfort and appearances of their masters. From the Lord to the scullery maid, everyone knows their place and their duties to maintain the proper order of life and society.

Clan Iain Abrach
Clan Iain Abrach is a Renaissance Guild specializing in 16th Century Highland Historical Re-enactment. We excel in portraying everyday life. We have many artisans and crafts people in our group. Our home is based in the San Francisco East Bay. In a Faire Season, we participate in many events throughout California and Nevada. We are family oriented, with a very strong cohesive house.

Danse Macabre
The Danse Macabre- A motley mix of formerly living Musicians & Dansers, here to say Danse Now or Forever Rest in Peace...

Guild of Saint Charles
We portray the court of John DeVere, 15th - 17th Earl of Oxford ( Tudor ) and (Elizabethian), in an effort to educate the audience on the trials of Anne Boline, the legal construction of the Church of England, the abolishment of boiling alive, ect. ( corresponding to the year of course)as our main show.

Guild of St. Bernard : Constables
We are a Comedy Improv street group who portray the 16th Century Constabulary.

Hounds Haven
Middle class English tavern guild. See our website at http://hounds.punk.net/

Independents
This is a catch all list, for individuals listed but not with a specific guild at an event.

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.

Les Femmes D'Affaire (aka Clan Ohottie)
*****YOU ARE IN THE COMPANY OF COURTESANS! The courtesan was one of the most accomplished women of her time. She was well-read, well-educated, and well-mannered at a time when most women could do no more than read a Psaltary and bear children. We have poetry readings,hold bocci ball tourneys, courtesan serenades, gaming, ladies available to preside over festive events and resolve political debates between argumentative kings. These women were dinner companions, entertainers, singers, poets, and lovers to some of the most prominent men of the period. They were trained in many arts, only one being the art of love. They held parties, and made more than one lord envious of the current patron. A courtesan was an attainable dream. She exhumed charm, lust, and opulence. Men came to her to experience the fantasy of love and knowledge their wives could not supply them with. They presented her with gifts, and she, in turn, would consider their proposals. They held power when women were allowed none. Any one or even in numbers, the ladies, with permission .. are allowed to preside over events or attend events as guest of honor. www.clanhottie.com *******************************************************************************

Merrie Pryanksters
We perform English country dance in the street and on stage. We usually do this as 2 to 3 stage shows and 1 or 2 street sets in a day. However, we are also happy doing all street shows in a day, in which case we try and spread them out through the day. We are upper peasant class to lower middle class in dress.

Merriwethers Madrigals
A mixed group of peasants and lower middles led by Friar Merriwether Occasionally we turn into the Crew of the Hoeker, Dowland's Balls, a musical crew of scurvy Pirates under the command of Cap'n Reggie Foulwind

New Queen's Ha'Penny Consort
Specialize in dances and songs/madrigals of the nobility. Primarily recorders, but also include singers and loud period instruments as well (shawms, etc.) Costume is English livery for a noble household

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.

Peasant Rats
Peasants who love to interact with everyone around them. Kind-Hearted, Filthy, Street-smart folk who are just making there way in life. Living their days on the road and making stories along the way. Knowing what we desire in life one peanut at a time (or whatever food we can get our hands on).

Pluckham and Leaveham
English , peasant class

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.

Saint Genieve
St Genieve's is a street improvisational group of English middle class and peasant women. You can see them go about their daily activities of producting their crafts, gossiping, planning and plotting community activities, and exploring the travelers in our village.

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. Helenas
Elizabethan peasants. Mostly husbandmen, huswives, minor craftsmen, and swine heards (pigfarkers). We will sing and dance and spin you a yarn while carrying our farm tools and discussing the finer pointes o' husbandry and hand crafts. We'll invite you to play games with us ranging from nine mans morris to thrash the chicken.

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. Kergans
Kergans is a reenactment guild that portrays a Catholic Scottish Household show caseing the daily life of a houshould on progress during the renaissance. Our mission is to entertain the general public by presenting a historical portrayal of the life of a scottish houshold at renaissance fairs throughout California. We run an open encampment except for dangerous areas (weaons pen)and encourage patorons to come in and join us to learn about what we are doing.

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. Murphys
english peasant, gypsies, travellers and beggars.

St. Simons
provide a inn type yard for participents to relax and entertain

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 Guild of St. George
The Guild of St. George (est. 1974) portrays the people of the Court of Elizabeth I circa 1570-1580

The Guild of St. Louis (Rounders)
We are and interactive group. We recruit from the shire visitors and teach them the game of Rounders.

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 Trayn'd Bande of the Blackfriars
Some of the most accomplished swordsmen in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth could be found in a place called the Blackfriars. Once a Dominican monastery, the estates of the priory came to be commonly known as "Blackfriars" due to the black vestments of the Dominican monks. The friars had gained permission from the London City authorities to have the whole of the Blackfriars precinct be named a "liberty", and therefore outside City jurisdiction, even though within the City walls. In the Blackfriars many swordsman found the freedom to practice swordsmanship outside the regulations set down by the London masters of defence. It was quite common to see Italian, German or Spanish styles of swordplay being practiced in the Blackfriars along with traditional English swordsmanship. Because of the renown of the swordsmen who frequent the Blackfriars, the Queen has tasked them with the responsibility of testing the capabilities of England’s militia and introducing the militia to the latest fighting techniques and weapons forms. Thus was born “The Trayn’d Bande of the Blackfriars”. During the course of testing the Blackfriars can be seen using such weapons forms as; sword and buckler (a common battlefield combination), rapier and dagger (common with civil attire), and maybe even longsword.

Theme Actors' Group
In the Renaissance community we are known for performing the "Privateers' Scavenger Hunt". We represent Elizabethan "Sea Rovers" or privateers with an encampment in a sea faring theme.

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