{"id":17580,"date":"2013-01-11T08:21:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T13:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=17580"},"modified":"2013-01-11T08:21:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T13:21:25","slug":"medieval-faire-takes-center-stage-the-next-two-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/01\/medieval-faire-takes-center-stage-the-next-two-weekends\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Medieval Faire’ Takes Center Stage the Next Two Weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Kiwanis Club of Riverdale is hosting its annual Kiwanis Medieval Faire.<\/p>\n

The event takes place this weekend and next from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Lakes Regional Park on Gladiolus Drive.<\/p>\n

The Faire will feature jousters, jugglers, and minstrels, a human chess match and other games, and rides. There will also be food and drink, including a beer tent with covered seating and live entertainment. Ale, wine, and meade are available.<\/p>\n

The entrance fee is $15 for adults, $5 for children under 13, and toddlers are admitted for free. There is ample free parking at the park, as well as ATMs at the gate and inside the grounds.<\/p>\n

More information is available at www.medieval-faire.com.<\/p>\n

This event is a fundraiser for the Riverdale Kiwanis Foundation. All proceeds support various children\u2019s projects in Lee County, such as the Adopt-a-School program, seasonal food baskets, clothing programs, in addition to many others.<\/p>\n

More information can be found at http:\/\/www.medieval-faire.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Schedule of events http:\/\/www.medieval-faire.org\/events.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Some of the entertainment includes:<\/p>\n

King Oliver – Ruling Monarch<\/p>\n

New Riders of the Golden Age – Jousting on Horseback<\/p>\n

Emrys Fleet “The Rat Catcher” – Comedy and Rat Pucking<\/p>\n

Merry Mischief – Music & Mischief<\/p>\n

Empty Hats – Celtic Music, Original and Traditional Music Menagerie – Music and Song<\/p>\n

Giacomo the Jester – Comedy, Juggling & Rope Walking<\/p>\n

The DaVinci Brothers presents – “Making Meatballs, an Opera”<\/p>\n

It’s Unbelievable – Magic and Comedy<\/p>\n

Barely Balanced – Juggling and Tumbling<\/p>\n

Wenches O’ the Wash Pit – Comedy Wash Wench Show<\/p>\n

Johnny Phoenix Fire Walker – Escape Artist, Comedy<\/p>\n

Aseem the Moor – Character of Mystery<\/p>\n

The Harpies – Harp & Song<\/p>\n

Maggie Sweetmeet – Comedy<\/p>\n

Shelly Nock-acrobatics<\/p>\n

Will the Fiddler<\/p>\n

Robert Hawk<\/p>\n

Pookie the Fairy and the Usual Suspects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kiwanis Club of Riverdale is hosting its annual Kiwanis Medieval Faire. The event takes place this weekend and next from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Lakes Regional Park… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}