Army of Dalkeith
Scottsih Border Calvary lead by Lord Dalkeith. the last of the Douglas Warlords "Schools of Knighthood" Miltiary Encampment, Hot Trods, Battle Pageant, Catholic supporters of Queen Mary, respected within English court as the last of the Noble "Black Douglas Clan"

Brotherhood Of The Black Flag
Welcome one and all, to the Porker's Sterne. An infamous dockside tavern, populated by all manor of outlaws, rogues, and miscreants. The most notorious of all being, of course, The Brotherhood Of The Black Flag. From the dark and mysterious glens of the Scottish highlands to the dangerous sea inlets of the Caribbean Islands, whether roving plunderer or a Barbary corsair, these members of the B.B.F. have found a home at the Porker's Sterne. A place where you can enjoy the serene live music from a table full of musicians playing a large selection from lilting Irish melodies to rowdy drinking songs. A place where patrons may break into uncanny melees of outstanding swordsmanship at any given time. A place where all manner of characters, some of world renown repute, others of the highest refinements, and others..well...not so much, come to congregate. And the wenches. Ah, don't forget the fine collection of bawdy and buxom wenches...

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.

Castlewood Re-enactment Guild
Castlewood re-enactment guild portrays the household of Anthony Browne, Viscount Montague and his family. A noble must travel in style and that entails a large establishment all working to maintain the comfort and appearances of their masters. From the Lord to the scullery maid, everyone knows their place and their duties to maintain the proper order of life and society.

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.

Friends of Faire
Friends of Faire is a Membership organization. Friends of Faire is a support organization dedicated to encouraging and supporting Faire patrons wanting to become more fully involved with the Renaissance Faire. Faire patrons, through their membership, are afforded many opportunities. The FOF Garden maybe used solely as a private sociable area within the Faire or for those wishing to become more closely involved: FOF offers many varied experiences and options. FOF members desiring to be even more immersed in a Faire are afforded a myriad of volunteer activities.

Guild of Saint Luke
We are a street troupe that portrays the "middle class" of an Elizabethan or Tudor village. Depending on venue, we can use encampment or not and/or we can act as the "guides" of the village; roving information people. Our characters are mostly English, but we also can have a few Irish, Scots, and occasional Italians and Spaniards.

Guild of Saint Mortimer
Welcome to the Weasel Inn! We're a working class tavern designed to draw the patrons into our world a little further. We have various tavern games, a few dice and card games, and our goal is to give everyone an experience that they'll remember. A few of our games work really well with children. They're drawn to play games of skittles, and we like to reward their play with a small token they can take home.

Guild of St. Bernard : Constables
We are a Comedy Improv street group who portray the 16th Century Constabulary.

Guilde of Sainte Marie
French Nobility, specifically the House of Valois and the French Court. We focus on the courts of Francois I, Henri II, and Catherine de Medicis and her children (the reign of Henri III). We also play English court upon request, preferably Elizabethan or Jacobian (James I) but we can do Henriquian.

Hounds Haven
Middle class English tavern guild. See our website at http://hounds.punk.net/

Independents
This is a catch all list, for individuals listed but not with a specific guild at an event.

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.

Merriwethers Madrigals
A mixed group of peasants and lower middles led by Friar Merriwether Occasionally we turn into the Crew of the Hoeker, Dowland's Balls, a musical crew of scurvy Pirates under the command of Cap'n Reggie Foulwind

New Queen's Ha'Penny Consort
Specialize in dances and songs/madrigals of the nobility. Primarily recorders, but also include singers and loud period instruments as well (shawms, etc.) 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.

Pluckham and Leaveham
English , peasant class

Royal White Eagle
Royal White Eagle presents historic events and the way of life of Polish aristocrats of the mid-1500s. We re-create the lifestyle of traveling noblemen of the era: the people, ideas and passions of the times. The talented cast combines theatrical skills with historic research to bring a small piece of Renaissance court to visitors of Renaissance-themed events.

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. Blaise Town Criers
Our Guild of Saint Blaise is an historical re-enactment troupe based out of Northern California. We portray the sons and daughters of the middle-class, trying to make a living as minor officials of Renaissance England. Our guild includes messengers, scribes, escorts, announcers, and more! We are the media of the Renaissance!

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. Michael's Salle d'Armes
We are the traveling branch of the Flemish fencing guild. We demonstrate and teach patrons about the art of the sword (longsword, rapier, sidesword, etc). In addition, we show and discuss clothing, cooking and medicine.

St. Murphys
english peasant, gypsies, travellers and beggars.

St. Simons
provide a inn type yard for participents to relax and entertain

St.Charles (english justice court)
Saint Charles Guild is a military gathering of mostly good, mostly English folk. We are responsible for the running of a justice court as well as a fully functional tavern. We are men and women of various types of nobility as well as middle class and peasants.

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 of St. Louis (Rounders)
We are and interactive group. We recruit from the shire visitors and teach them the game of Rounders.

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.

The Villayge Idyots
We are a group of street entertainers bent on causing all kinds of entertaining "trouble" in the streets of faire. Made up of peasants (and a handful of pirates!) from mixed nationalities (mostly English and Scottish), our sole purpose is to bring laughter and merriment throughout the streets of the faire by playing dozens of games and performing dozens of humorous acts that are sure to have visitors and patrons alike clutching their sides in laughter. We leave almost no stone unturned, but are sure to keep it appropriate for the wee ones as well. A handful of our members are also crew members of the pirate ship Reaper, the nemesis crew of the Privateers of the Dauntless who, when the Dauntless is in attendance at a faire, provide a massive crowd-drawing act of peril, tragedy, and comedy for an unforgettable event that thousands have loved and thousands more are sure to enjoy.

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.

Tuath Ui Niall (formerly St. Kennoch's)
We portray a 16th century Northern Ireland band of Ulster soldiers. Soldiers and camp consist of: Scottish heavy infantry, known as Galloglaigh & lightly armored Ceathairne (Irish Kern) and our Mban Bruthainneach (Women).