Home - Comments - Entertainment - Press Release - Schedule
Bring your family and have a reunion as a Celtic
Clan!
17th Annual Iowa Renaissance Festival and Gathering o'
Celts
May 3-4, 2008
Middle Amana Park (Medici Grove) - Amana Colonies, IA
(Do you get the Regional
Renaissance Reporter?)
NOTE: The Iowa Renaissance Festival changed dates in 2006. It is now held in May, and not over Labor Day Weekend as it has in years past (1999-2005). For Labor Day Weekend, visit Iowa's first permanent renaissance theme park (with buildings, not tents) at Festival Park in Des Moines.
IOWA RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL
-News Release-
"Regional Festival to Return"
To defy rumors that the Iowa Renaissance Festival & Gathering o'Celts will not remain in the Amana Colonies, producer Gregory Schmidt has decided to up-grade the amount and quality of entertainment and historical presentations, this year.
Coinciding with Amana's "Maifest" weekend the 17th installment of the Renaissance faire will feature headliner acts from the Minneapolis, Chicago and Kansas City festivals. This includes Tuey Wilson the firetorch rope-walker (Minnesota Renaissance Festival), Three-Legged Race comedy improv from Chicago, Past Magic illusion show from Kansas City, West Coast Highland Games champion Kenneth Stewart, The Horsemen commedia dell'arte of Omaha, lutenist & poet Richard Griffith of Minneapolis, and The Amazing Budabi Brothers from Minnesota.
Besides these new additions to the festival line-up, 15 of the regular performing troupes and 180 costumed characters will return to offer their popular shows, music and demonstrations.
There will even be a complete re-mix of the food court
with this year's addition of a 'Chocolate Fest' offered by the chocolatier
of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. The artisan's marketplace will also
see a variety of different goods for sale.
Gregory Schmidt, producer of the festival and head gate greeter, recently
earned the over-all Best Actor Award at the inaugural Midwest Studio Showcase
Awards for his leading role in the TV pilot "Ghost Town".
He can be seen in the feature movie NO LOVE FOR THE COWBOY, shot in Nebraska, with a Spring release.
Schmidt is the director of the new Renaissance fest theme park in Des Moines, and is building a similar one in Omaha.
The IOWA RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL & Gathering o' Celts will take place on May 3rd & 4th (11am to 6pm) "rain or shine" at Middle Amana Park.
Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for kids 8 to 14, with children free. There is free parking.
For further details check www.iowarenfest.com or contact greg - festint.com or call (641) 357-5177.
Travel and lodging info for other Amana Colonies events can be obtained at (800) 579-2294 or www.AmanaColonies.com.
-30-
CONTACT: Greg Schmidt
641-357-5177
greg - festint.com
