Fishers Renaissance Faire Recap

Last weekend, Nick and I attended the Fishers Renaissance Faire. Held on October 2 and 3, 2010 in Fishers, Indiana, this event was a first for Folkcraft in many years.

Nick and Richard in front of the Folkcraft tent

After a week of beautiful weather, sunny with highs in the seventies, it rained most of the Faire's first day, and was decidedly cold on the second day. Even with the uncooperative weather, though, we had a great time, and exposed a lot of people to the Appalachian dulcimer.

Like the costumes?

This video shows the huge crowds in the middle of the day on Saturday, and then shows the inside of the Folkcraft tent. Watch all the way to the end, and you'll see Nick with a virtuoso slide whistle performance.

https://youtu.be/_HUZEw9Vrm4 Youtube Video

"Slide whistle??? What??? Why???"

Thank you for asking!

As Folkcraft Instruments, we attended the faire to promote the dulcimer, and hopefully to sell a few. But realistically, we knew that small instruments (cheap, portable, easy to sell) would pay our expenses. We demonstrated slide whistles, ocarinas, thumb pianos, and other non-dulcimer instruments all day long. Of course, one of us was playing a dulcimer pretty much non-stop, too.

Here's a video of Richard playing "The Road To Lisdoonvarna" with a traveling lute player:

https://youtu.be/lu1MLsy76rU Youtube Video

I hope you enjoyed the videos, and thanks for reading!

Richard