INFO: Norman (OK) Medieval Faire 2000

Subject: INFO: Norman (OK) Medieval Faire 2000
From: T in Oklahoma
Date: 28 Oct 99 - 02:19 PM

FYI: I thought I'd get in an early rennfest advisory. Here is a link to the Norman (Oklahoma) Medieval Faire website. Mark your calendars!

T.

Subject: RE: INFO: Norman (OK) Medieval Faire 2000
From: j0_77
Date: 28 Oct 99 - 08:31 PM

Thankyou T in Oklahoma.

Subject: RE: INFO: Norman (OK) Medieval Faire 2000
From: Gint
Date: 25 Jan 00 - 03:43 PM

If I can I will try to get there depends on how Glastonbury Medieval Festival is going

Subject: RE: INFO: Norman (OK) Medieval Faire 2000
From: GUEST,Okiemockbird
Date: 26 Jan 00 - 10:32 AM

Gint, When & where is the Glastonbury Med. festival ? T.

Subject: RE: INFO: Norman (OK) Medieval Faire 2000
From: Gint
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 05:25 AM

Glastonbury Medieval Festival

May 27th, 28th, 29th, 2000.

At the end of May we are having the first medieval bash at the Glastonbury Festival site in Pilton, there should be several hundred re-enactors, along with celts, druids etc, all are welcome.

There's a hundred + medieval banquet, menu curtesy of Jon_a and his missus "da boss"

There will be camping from Monday the 22nd and I have ordered 20 tons of firewood. There will also be an official beer tent from the Saturday and The Trolls Bottom (for re-enactors, read as cheap)will be open from the Monday.

All 'catter's are welcome and can get a free pass from [e-mail], or pay to get in, go to the admin tent or Trolls Bottom Bar and you entry fee will be refunded when you mention the mudcat.

There will be several UK 'catter's there by default

We get to muddy the festival site before anyone else

For all you hunters, there is an open season on Ferret's with songbooks, if you see one shoot it and put it out of our misery

Subject: RE: INFO: Norman (OK) Medieval Faire 2000
From: GUEST,Okiemockbird
Date: 07 Apr 00 - 12:04 AM

News coverage has already started, click here and here.

I am very skeptical of the claim made in the second story, that there is a piece of music called "Butterfly Jig" which can be documented to be a thousand years old. A Jig is a dance form, and I know of no western European dance music that survives and can be deciphered from the 10th or 11th centuries. So far as I know, all the music surviving from before the year 1000 is vocal church music. From the 11th-12th centuries we have "Kalenda Maya", which is derived from a dance-tune, but the form in which it survives is a song.

T.