Cardiff Rose Swordsmen
We portray a Welsh-border English Militia unit, a "Trayned Bande" from the late Elizabethan era. We are active musketeers, doing black powder demonstrations at most events. Along with our Baggage Trayne of suttlers, cooks, and craftsmen, we depict all elements of late 16th C life and military drill. Our Field Kitchen has won the Cast Iron Chef competition several times, and features a display of period foods and cooking processes. We've escorted the Queen at Stafford Lake, Folsom and Placerville faires, providing guards with morions and halberds for Court use.

Clan Iain Abrach
Clan Iain Abrach is a Renaissance Guild specializing in 16th Century Highland Historical Re-enactment. We excel in portraying everyday life. We have many artisans and crafts people in our group. Our home is based in the San Francisco East Bay. In a Faire Season, we participate in many events throughout California and Nevada. We are family oriented, with a very strong cohesive house.

Danse Macabre
The Danse Macabre- A motley mix of formerly living Musicians & Dansers, here to say Danse Now or Forever Rest in Peace...

Greyraven Constabulary
We are a Street Troupe who portray 16th Century Constables and there families. Our main goal at events is to make sure patrons enjoy themselves and return year after year. We use improv and comedy to get patrons involved with the event and have a good time while we are at it.

Kergans
Kergan's is a reenactment guild that portrays a Catholic Scottish Household show casing the daily life of a household on progress during the renaissance. Our mission is to entertain the general public by presenting a historical portrayal of the life of a Scottish household. We run an open encampment except for dangerous areas (weapons pen)and encourage everyone to come in and join us to learn about what we are doing.

Knights of Santiago
We are a Spanish guild, Military and mostly nobility, or those who have risen to the station of knighthood in service to the King of Spain.

Merrie Pryanksters
We perform English country dance in the street and on stage. We usually do this as 2 to 3 stage shows and 1 or 2 street sets in a day. However, we are also happy doing all street shows in a day, in which case we try and spread them out through the day. We are upper peasant class to lower middle class in dress.

My Lady's Stillroom
Welcome to My Ladye's Stillroom,also known as THE PEANUT GALLERY. We are maids from a noble house who prepare medicinal, cosmetic, and other concoctions necessary for the household. The Stillroom Maids are traveling to town for supplies, and are most pleased to discover that The Royal Court, is there on Progression! A tedious market trip has now become a chance to glimpse Britain's greatest monarch and enjoy a faire. Look for these maids as they joyfully weave their way through the shops and shows, leaving fun and mischief in their wake. Or perhaps you might find them playing with the local children or singing while working on simple crafts. Stop and give them a hearty 'Good Morrow!",they might even let you in on some of the juicy gossip about the shire!

Needle's Eye
Clothing reveals a remarkable picture of the daily lives, beliefs, expectations and hopes of those who lived in the past. Language of clothing speaks of status, occupation, aesthetics, social cohesiveness, prosperity and a host of other meanings, subtle and overt. Needle's Eye, set up as a period tailor shop, is comprised of quality Tailors and Semstresses who spent years researching the history and construction of clothes and needle arts such as lace making, embroidery, blackwork, through the centuries. Now we share our knowledge with patrons of the events circuit through lectures, presentations and gigs at faire.

New Queen's Ha'Penny Consort
We specialize in dances and songs/madrigals of the nobility. Primarily recorders, but we also include singers and loud period instruments as well (shawms, etc.) Our costume is English livery for a noble household

Ottoman Traders' Guild
We portray and Ottoman Turkish trading caravan of the mid-1500's. During the Renaissance, for our purposes 1520 - 1600, trade was happening either through walking caravans traveling from city to city or by merchant ship. Our caravan travels established trade routes starting in Constantinople and traveling "around the known world". We are primarily a Trading Caravan and represent the several different classes: merchant traders, entertainers, fighting men, slaves, and thieves, that would have joined on caravan. We have an established stage show that includes mid-eastern music and dancing, and also teach the public in our encampment.

Out of Scoil Players
We are a group of traveling players. We were originally an Irish performing arts school but have been stranded in England and have added several English to our group. We act English so as to fit in, though some members cling to their Irish heritage. We run the Adam's Ale Inn as a place to perform in each town.

Saint Genieve
St Genieve's is a street improvisational group of English middle class and peasant women. You can see them go about their daily activities of producting their crafts, gossiping, planning and plotting community activities, and exploring the travelers in our village.

St Patrick
We are a guild portraying the Irish septs of Queen Elizabeth I's reign. Equipped with livery to play the O'Neill, O'Donnell, and O'Rourke clans, we chiefly enact the life and times of Cormac macbaron O'Neill and his retainers while he is in England. While a self-contained yard, we stress both playing the street and audience participation for both entertainment and educational value.

St. Dismas Renaissance Guild
Scottish-English Borderers. Reivers, fighters and entourage of titled Border Lord

St. Helenas
Elizabethan peasants. Mostly husbandmen, huswives, minor craftsmen, and swine heards (pigfarkers). We will sing and dance and spin you a yarn while carrying our farm tools and discussing the finer pointes o' husbandry and hand crafts. We'll invite you to play games with us ranging from nine mans morris to thrash the chicken.

St. John's Guild
Reenactment of the Knights of St. John. A multinational, religous military organization. Most of our members portray English, a couple Irish.

St. Matthew's Guild
English peasantry & rising middle class

St. Maximilian Landsknecht Re-Enactment Guild
Saint Maximilian Landsknecht Re-enactment Guild portrays mercenaries from the Holy Roman Empire, which occupied modern-day Germany, Austria, Hungry, and northern Italy. Our goal is to bring the year 1536 to life by matching period sources as close as possible, demonstrating historical martial life, and explaining our lives in character.

St. Murphys
Peasants of all descriptions, washer women, beggars, thieves, gypsys and rogues.

St. Sebastians
St. Sebastians portrays a group of longbow soldiers and foresters, their families, and supporting craftsmen.

The GreenMan Clan
We represent a troupe of traveling merchants who have picked up a variety of company as we travelled the Silk and Spice roads. We have many participants including Nobles, Men at Arms, crafts and trades people, jugglers dancers and spinners of wool and tales. We also do a gig as Barber-Surgeon when we don't have our full guild available, and because it is a fun and interesting gig to do.

The Guild of Santa Maria
We are a historical re-enactment group that performs at Renaissance Faires and other events along the West Coast and beyond. We portray an ambassadorial entourage from the Medici Court in Florence sent to call upon the Courts of Elizabeth and Mary as they travel throughout their own countryside in an attempt to avoid London's summer bouts of the Plague. From our encampment we wait until Her Majesty has time to have an audience and in the interim we spend our days haggling with the local merchants in working out new trade agreements, drilling our troops should the need arise for a military action, receiving and sending dispatches, and holding court - and in short, trying to make the best of being so far from home. In addition to entertaining the faire's audience, we also seek to educate, both though continual improvisational theater directed both at other performers as well as towards any patron who would care to join in the play, and through activities such as period weapons instruction, blackwork, music, painting, and much more.

The Guild of St. George
The Guild of St. George (est. 1974) portrays the people of the Court of Elizabeth I circa 1570-1580. The guild illustrates the daily life and culture of the upper class in the 16th century through period song, dance, ceremony and handcrafts with a heavy emphasis on audience interaction.

The Guilds of St. Barbara & St. Genesius
We are Olde School Renaissance Productions, Inc. a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit corporation, we operate as the Guilds of St. Barbara’s (who specialize in Weapons and Armaments – they are crafts people) and St. Genesius (who specialize in dance & music). We are known, collectively, as Dance and Destruction (see our website www.danceanddestruction.org). We set up an encampment complete with period games, crafts and “mini” trebuchet. We have several scheduled trebuchet demonstrations each day, as well as several dance performances/lessons. We have experience interacting with both the Scottish and English courts and are always willing to dance for them or instruct them. We are a child friendly/patron oriented group.

The Trayn'd Bande of the Blackfriars
Some of the most accomplished swordsmen in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth could be found in a place called the Blackfriars. Once a Dominican monastery, the estates of the priory came to be commonly known as "Blackfriars" due to the black vestments of the Dominican monks. The friars had gained permission from the London City authorities to have the whole of the Blackfriars precinct be named a "liberty", and therefore outside City jurisdiction, even though within the City walls. In the Blackfriars many swordsman found the freedom to practice swordsmanship outside the regulations set down by the London masters of defence. It was quite common to see Italian, German or Spanish styles of swordplay being practiced in the Blackfriars along with traditional English swordsmanship. Because of the renown of the swordsmen who frequent the Blackfriars, the Queen has tasked them with the responsibility of testing the capabilities of England’s militia and introducing the militia to the latest fighting techniques and weapons forms. Thus was born “The Trayn’d Bande of the Blackfriars”. During the course of testing the Blackfriars can be seen using such weapons forms as; sword and buckler (a common battlefield combination), rapier and dagger (common with civil attire), and maybe even longsword.

Theme Actors' Group
In the Renaissance community we are known for performing the "Privateers' Scavenger Hunt". We represent Elizabethan "Sea Rovers" or privateers with an encampment in a sea faring theme.