We will be returning to the Bristol Renaissance Faire for three weeks this year! Join us for maritime ballads, sea shanties and shenanigans! Where You Can Party Like it’s 1599!

Every Faire day recreates a time when knights were noble, maids were merry and turkey legs were titanic. Once you enter the portal gates, you travel back in time to the year 1574, and you’ve walked right into an exciting village festival day. And what are we celebrating? Queen Elizabeth, Herself, is visiting Bristol! It’s time to eat, drink and be merry! Revelry is the order of the day!

Did you know that some of the earliest songs associated with sea shanties originated around the time of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I?

We will be returning to the Bristol Renaissance Faire for three weeks this year! Join us for maritime ballads, sea shanties and shenanigans! Where You Can Party Like it’s 1599!

Every Faire day recreates a time when knights were noble, maids were merry and turkey legs were titanic. Once you enter the portal gates, you travel back in time to the year 1574, and you’ve walked right into an exciting village festival day. And what are we celebrating? Queen Elizabeth, Herself, is visiting Bristol! It’s time to eat, drink and be merry! Revelry is the order of the day!

Elizabethan mariners who harried Spanish treasure ships in both the old and new worlds were referred to as “Seadogs”!  They sailed under the authority of the Queen with official charters as privateers, but the king of Spain considered them to be pirates!

Join Bounding Main as they make their first appearance at the historic Café Carpe. Housed in a century-old brick building on the Rock River, Café Carpe has a dedicated listening room known for its great acoustics and sound system and offers a dining menu that is mostly homemade.