Come join the revels!
Friday - Sunday, April 23 - 25, 2010
Hosted by: McMenamins Grand Lodge
Free and open to the Public!
Friday 3pm to Dusk
Saturday 10 am to Dusk
Sunday 10am to 3pm

Step back in time for a day of revels at the Faire In The Grove! The Society for Creative Anachronism and Pacific University's History Department invite you to experience the Middle Ages and the Renaissance!


Hosted on the vast front lawn of the Grand Lodge, come and be transported back to Fairegrove, a medieval village. Enjoy seeing and learning some of the history behind life in the middle ages and beyond into the Renaissance.

Enjoy live amored combat, rapier, dance, music, story telling, merchants, merchants, merchants, juggling, medieval cooking, and textile demos, book binding, leather working, strolling musicians, singers and dancers throught the day.


The public is invited to participate with history buffs and students of Pacific University's medieval studies. Join us for fun and interesting events, entertainments and displays at this Demo.

Some of the displays and demonstrations will be:

Nalbinding demo it predates both knitting and crochet by at least 2000 years.
Medieval Dyes What did people use before the chemical dyes we know today?
Viking Tent and Equipment
Weaving - Card, Tablet, Loom? Which did they use?
16th c. German food
French clothing display
German renaissance dish display
Viking dish & bead display
Mary Rose dish display The Mary Rose was a warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII
Medieval food and samples
Sunday - Pinklefartz German Kale Festival games
Kumihimo a Japanese form of braid-making.

2010 Performers & Entertainers

Ollamh Conchobar Clarsair is an Irish musician and artist. He composes and plays many period harp pieces.

Tobias the Adequate Part magician, part philosopher, part hero, and mostly a loud fat man in a series of outlandish hats.

The Sherwood Renaissance Singers A group of 18 singers, that regularly perform at renaissance faires and other venues throughout Oregon and Washington.

Karisilama! Performing traditional Middle Eastern and Celtic music with their own creative interpretation using both traditional & non-traditional instruments.

Alexander James Adams From out the mists of ancient Celtic forests comes this talented musician to entertain you with songs of lore and legend, soulful airs and spritely dance tunes of that twilight time betwixt the ages.

Vancouver Madrigal Singers A 12 voice, acappella vocal ensemble specializing in English renaissance madrigals.

Dame Giuliana Benevoli - Storyteller
Loves collecting and telling tales from far and near. She's been weaving stories since the age of 12 delighting classmates and maintains that love affair with the spoken word to this day. She works with other like-minded tellers in the Portland Storytellers Guild.

Harpsidhe (pronounced "harp - shee"), aka Tyger Bailey, Harp compositions inspired by the land of Faerie, the forest, and other magical places. Celtic pub songs. The Harpsidhe Facebook page is here.  She is also the harping half of the Celtic duo Anyar Regyt.

Scottish Tarts - Musicale Touring Group Four part vocal group who's repertoir includes renaissance selections to "bawdy ale house" songs.

Enjoy strolling musicians, singers and dancers throught the day.