Camlann Medieval Village A Festival of May

From Camlann Medieval Village A Festival of May Website:

May 2nd & 3rd, 2015
Noon to 5:00 P.M.

A celebration welcoming summer in a reproduction of a 14th century English village.

Admission: Adults $10, Seniors $6, Children under 12 $6, Under 5 free, With banquet $45

Mayday, somour games, was a popular holiday in the middle ages, a celebration of Sumer is i-cumen in. Bringyng in the May was the traditional form of this celebration. Young folk and others would venture into the woods before daybreak, or the night before, to gather wild flowers, greenery, and hawthorn boughs. Sometimes the young men would carry back a tree trunk, stripped of branches, to be redecorated with flowers and long ribbons. Many towns had a year-round Maypole in their village square around which villagers would enjoy dancing, games, contests, choosing a May Queen, and feasting.


Craft Shops & Booths will open at noon. Crafters will demonstrate garland weaving, wool dyeing, blacksmithing, shoemaking, and timber hewing.

May games and entertainment begin at 1 pm. Come join in jou de boule, quoits, nine-man-morris, and village dancing; you may enjoy the harmonious medieval music of Bawderie & Blisse, Janet Harper and Jacob Breedlove.