Pictures from the Louisiana Renaissance Faire
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- Cedric from The Bedlam Bards and I next to the well.
- The Bedlam Bards posing with Craig of Farrington.
- The Bedlam Bards posing with Craig of Farrington and the faire's music director.
- The Bedlam Bards' bawdy show.
- When they asked for a pretty volunteer in a dress, they never expected THIS..... *grin*
- Another picture of the Bedlam Bards and their lovely assistant.
- The Bedlam Bards also play sweet pretty music (though it's not widely known).
- Here's a picture of the most adorable baby at the faire - and the whole family is in matching garb!
- Here's Paulo juggling flaming torches ("Oh, no! Not the boots!")
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- Paulo jumps on...."The big flaming ball....OF DEATH!"
- Paulo catches flaming torches from volunteers.
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- Paulo succeeds in not catching anything on fire!
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- A group of us went out to dinner to celebrate Hawke's birthday.
- More of the dinner group.
- Thomas Wood talks on the phone.
- Here's all of us! (Well, that sat outside - there were a few more people inside as well!)
- The defenders of the restaurant!
- The forge (where we slept).
- Cedric and Vince (a really great hammered dulcimer player!)
- Hawke "makes out like a bandit" on the day before his birthday.
- The music director had the most awesome flute/cane - I want one now!
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- A beautiful kitty at the faire.
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- I had just got through lamenting the absense of cats from the faire, and look what we found!
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- The big bridge on the way back to Texas.
- A shot of the river on the way back to Texas.
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- The Texas state line!
Week 3 - From left to right, top to bottom -
- The Bards sing "Oh Lassie, Come Beat Me", and a pirate girl takes them up on it!
- The Bards play for the Queen's court.
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- The Queen and her attendants enjoy the Bards!
- A pretty pig belonging to one of the Queen's attendants. Hawke's piggy has found a friend!
- The Bards play one of those elusive "pretty shows" in front of a great sunset.
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- Cedric and a great friend!
- The beautiful lake at the faire.
- The Rouges play O'Flaherty's Irish Pub in New Orleans.
- The Rouges introduce - Celtic Elvis!
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- Go figure - the bathroom grafitti in O'Flaherty's Irish Pub is in Gaelic!
- A picture of the Muffaletta shop in New Orleans for Amber - we missed you!
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- A great family at the faire - even the baby's in garb!
- An appearance by everyone's favorite Fairy Godfather!
- These were some really neat wings.
- There was a great rennie party after the faire one night, but I was having too much fun to take pics. Here's the only one - Andrew from The Brobdingnagian Bards.
- The fog at the faire.
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- The drive back to Texas.
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- A really beautiful bird.
Week 4 - From left to right, top to bottom -
- The Bards performing a morning show - brrrrr, it's cold all of a sudden!
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- The Queen and her attendants enjoy the concert.
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- Cedric kisses the Queen's feet.
- The Bards performing in front of some fae folk.
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- A fae mother and daughter, and their handsome Scot.
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- The Bards with Vince!
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- An acrobat warming up for her show.
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- The Renaissance "caped crusader".
- Jeff's daughter wearing some horns I made.
- Fireworks at the end of the faire.
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- Jeff "jazzes it up" at a swing dance dinner.