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Saturdays
& Sundays: July 19 thru August 24, 2008
11:30
am to 6:00 pm
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Music,
Theatre
Old
World Crafts
Armored
Knights
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Admission:
(cash or check please)
Adults
- - $10.00 60
years & over - - $6.00
12
years & under - - $6.00 5 years &
under - - free
Feast &
Festival - -
$45.00
Children
12 and under must be accompanied by an adult at all times
No
pets - radios - flash - videos, please
Limited
Smoking areas provided
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The
lord of Camlann invites you to attend his summer village festivals,
all with theatre, knightly combat, music, crafts, archery, swordplay, minstrels, and
victuals.
Come to Somersetshire, ancient realm
of Arthur the king, as our morning
trumpet & charter proclamation open the village
gates upon the colorful world of Chaucer's England in 1376. The pace is leisurely: everything does not happen at once. The scale is small,
intimate: leave behind the hectic 21st century.
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Sir
Ywayn, the Stone
& the Well, an amazing masked dramatization of a 14th century
Middle English Arthurian romance is featured by Camlann's troop of players.
Taken from a translation of Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain,
written in the 12th century. This summer we will present the first
of three parts of the romance, in which Ywayn encounters a mysterious
knight who guards a well and magical stone in the forest Brocelianda.
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A combined
arts presentation featuring armed combat. ensemble music, with sets and masks
based on medieval artistic forms |
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Director: JoAnn
Kirley; Script
Transcription: Roger Shell; Mask & Scenery Design &
Production: Jacob Priestley; Mask & Scenery Assistants:
Ashley & Andrew Swanland, Mitzi Tinsley, Laura Storm, Sam Carstens,
Shelby Cain, Nicole Mikulas-Serletti, Jeanne Pascal and Zac Benfield; Artistic
Consultant: Diana Peterson. Middle English Consultant: Roger
Shell; Clothing Consultants: Sally Shell
& Diana Peterson; Properties
Coordinator: Roger Shell;
Music Provided by: Sub Tilia,
The Sisters & Chansonnier.
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This
festival also features:
Sir Geffrey's Manor
Court, Swords-master
Demonstrations,
and War
Bow
Archery
Demonstrations. Visitors can join villagers in
Freemen
Training
to support their
knight in arms. Minstrels
ply
their talents all the day with music and dancing; Camlann's
Troupe of Jongleurs presents: dramatizations of
stories from Boccaccio's Decameron.
Crafters
demonstrate and offer excellent wares,
and fine goods to carry home to your manor house.
Join
in Villager Dances
and
a Danse Macabre
that brings the faire to a close.
Medieval
Banquets:
July 19 & 26, and on August 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, & 23. Evenings at 6 p.m. |
Festival
Food:
For lunch, our food stall has wholesome ploughman’s meals, pasties,
and muste
to drink; You may sit down at þe
Bors
Hede þ e
Bors
Hede þe
Bors
Hede
and order ale or mead with a hot lunch (11:30
- 5:00 pm); Enjoy our outdoor dining area.
Call ahead to reserve a table for a wondrous dinner (5:00 to 8:00 pm).
On
Saturdays and some Sundays the Summer
Feast begins at 6:00 pm.
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Concerts
all day long! Performers
at Camlann are skilled professional entertainers, presenting music and
stories from medieval sources, using instruments and equipment of the types
available before 1400, including the Lute,
harp, shawm, symphonie, recorder,
vielle, pipe & tabor, psaltry,
and many others. You too may participate by joining hands with the village
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PAYNES
MAGYKES
Wondrous sleight of hand
by Master Payne, who has been a feature a the Camlann Faire since
1982. Payne treats his audience to a highly interactive and engaging
medieval experience. 'Solid gold rings' link and unlink at his
command. Handkerchiefs change colors, and a hapless spectator may or
may not survive the dreaded Ram's Bladder Trick!
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BAWDERIE &
BLISSE
Roger
Shell, and Diana Peterson perform original arrangements of courtly and popular songs from the
middle ages, accompanied by
lute, harp, recorder, tabor, bell and tambor.
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CHANSONNIER
This
trio ensemble, led by Gail Perstein, performs vocals and music for
listening and for village dancing. Their many instruments include
recorders, gemshorns, shawm, psaltery, harp vielle, lute, krumhorns,
bells, tabor pipe, nakers and timbrels.
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FREDERICK
de LIEGE
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Owen
Jungemann entertains with skill and dexterity as he juggles all manner
of pins, balls, bags & fire sticks. How many items can he keep in
the air at one time ?
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ÞE SISTERS
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This
exquisite a capella vocal ensemble from Seattle performs music by
Hildegard von Bingen, from
the Cantiguas de Santa Maria, and other sacred and secular
medieval works.
Kathy Sankey incorporates occupational therapy with teaching vocal
technique at her Voiceworks studio. Kiki Hood solos at University
Christian Church, and sings with the Seattle Chamber Singers.
Alison Hopkins works on her Early Music doctorate at the University of
Washington, sings and cantors at Our Lady of Fatima. Miriam
Espeseth sings
also in the Northwest Chamber Chorus, and is the group's linguistic
expert.
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RACHEL
ÞE
STORYTELLER -
Rachel's
wonderfully retold stories are taken from medieval Arthurian literature,
Chaucerian stories and Celtic tales. Her expressive presentation
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JANET
ÞE HARPER
Janet
Naylor, of Eugene Oregon, resurrects traditional techniques on the wire
strung harp, performing songs from Gaelic and medieval traditions.
She has won national awards for composing and arranging in the Scottish
tradition, and teaches harp privately and in workshops. |
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SUB
TILIA is a
unique early music duo from the Pacific Northwest who perform medieval
music and poetry from Spain to Kiev. Jacob Priestley has been
singing and telling entertaining stories for the past 19 years, and has
made most of the instruments on which he performs, including the fiddle,
rotta, organistrum, and clavicytherium. Shula Kleinerman,
vielle player, has played in the Pacific Northwest since 2000, and with Jacob since 2005. Music performed by the duo includes
music from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Ars Nova, Carmina Burana,
Troubador and Trouvère music, and Middle English songs and dances.
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Craft
presentations at Camlann are chosen to feature the kind of hand-made goods that
were produced in the middle ages. Preference is given to artisans who can
demonstrate the use of medieval tools and techniques. |
Here you may
purchase unique gifts and useful items incorporating medieval art designs, and join in our village life - - you can wear or rent fine attire,
shoot the longbow, and try the games
of skill.
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BOOKS
(Medieval History & Culture) Scribe's
Shop
CLOTHING
& ACCESSORIES sales & rentals Clothier
Shoppe
CIDER
MAKING demonstration
Cidre Mille
COTTAGE BUILDING -
demonstration: Jonathan Seaton
ARMOR
CRAFTING demonstration
- Timothy Plourd
SWORD
MASTER demonstrations - Michael Pearce & Mark Colter
LONGBOW ARCHERY
& BOWYER demonstrations - Dave Tinsley
FLETCHING demonstrations
- Scott West
WOOL
DYEING demonstration - Ewalani Christian
CLOAKS
& COTES - Barbara Lewellen
SHOEMAKING
demonstration - Tony Lewellen
CANDLE
MAKING demonstration - Michelle Hansen
POTTERY
demonstrations - Mitzi Tinsley
MASSAGE
- Jennifer Lund
LOTIONS
- Gwyneth Young
FLOWER
GARLANDS - Ashley Swanland
PENNANTS
& BANNERS - Gail Perstein
DIVINATIONS
- Nicole & Sally Mikulas-Serletti
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