Do you love Renaissance Festivals? The Renaissance Festival Podcast is free downloadable radio show that highlights artists performing at Renaissance festivals. Each week, you will enjoy Renaissance festival music, song, comedy, and interviews to the delight of your inner Rennie. The podcast also hosts the annual Renaissance Festival Awards. Grab a pint of beer or mead and join us at the faire all year long.
Marc Gunn, The Celtfather
Marc Gunn is an acoustic folk musician based in New Orleans. His music is rooted 
in the American Celtic song tradition, and his preference of musical instruments-the autoharp-make him stand out as something unique in the Celtic musical community. He has been called “The Godfather of Celtic music online” for his steadfast support of indie Celtic music, free Celtic music downloads, and his award-winning Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, one of the most-popular music podcasts on iTunes. Good food, good drink and good company. Embrace independent Celtic music!
Joe Haydu
Joe Haydu has been called many things, most of which cannot be repeated in the presence of ladies, children, or men lacking extra-ordinary constitution. After discovering the Renaissance Faire Podcast and the Brobdingnagian Bards in 2007, Joe volunteered to help out and has been producing the podcast ever since. When he’s not at his day job as an engineer, Joe is also an amateur guitarist and music teacher in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia. He hopes to record an album of Celtic music and start playing at Faires in the near future.
Tony Artym
Tony Artym grew up and lives Minnesota. When he was little he parents took him to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Years later he would start going every year to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and loves it even more. He introduction to podcasts was Renaissance Festival podcast when it first started in June 2005. Today Tony is helps with the Ren Fest Awards, the Hall of Fame and also run the Ren Fest Podcast Facebook group. When he is not doing that or out at the Renaissance Festival, he works on lots of other projects like filmmaking, writing, going to conventions, family projects and traveling.
Tony is the Gatekeeper to the Summer Court appointed by the Summer Queen herself, but the Winter Court and the Queen high respect him as well. He is highly gifted in all three forums of magic. Tony live in the dungeon where he keeps all the minions in check, and owns the largest Medieval torture devices in over seven kingdoms, he often makes sure the torture devices are working right by trying them on the minions. Tony is single and is always on the look out for a good young lass. Legend has it that his is tided to the Royal Family, he is the Queen’s younger brother and might be the Uncle to Matt. Tony to this day will not say. His is a storyteller, in fact his learned from one of best story tell on the planet. He is one of only a few in the world how has won the ten years in a row at the annual Tory-stellers slam at Slut City, and has the necklace to prove it. Tony has a great deal of knowledge when it comes to magical creatures. Tony has always said “Live life like a faerie tail.”
Kristen Roger
Kristen Roger grew up and lives on Long Island in New York. When she was little, her folks used to take me to a few local Ren Faires at both Sands Point and the Unitarian Fellowship in Huntington. She was hooked from a young age. It was so inspiring – all of the colours and the garb, not to mention the crafts, and of course the joust. She always wanted to go to the big one in Tuxedeo, and plan on it, hopefully this season. She hopes that people will hear our podcast, and come to be as inspired by the music itself, as I was. 
Kristen is a loose cannon. Her biggest clam to fame, that she is most proud of is having her own Bawdy show special. Legend has it that when Kristen records the Bawdy show, she records it naked. A legend she will not confirm or deny. Beside that, she also is the Pub-Mistress (co-owner) of the Naught Wench in town. When she is not missing from the castle for months on end you can find Kristen doing a number of things around the castle, like dancing, drinking, and singing on top of barrows of wine and beer in the cellar, or just doing that around the castle, and having a blast at all times. Of all of the bed chambers we have in our castle, Kristen has the biggest bed chamber, where she like to spend her down time, with this fact that Kristen is quirky with an interesting, though twisted, sense of humor, this is where she gets her inspiration from. Kristen favorite food is the pickle. In her words “you can just do so much with it.”
Matt Ledder
Matt Ledder is an actor, singer, designer, writer, human jukebox, and freelance do-gooder hailing from the frozen tundra of Minnesota. He loves the atmosphere 
and character of Renaissance Festivals, and especially loves the energy of street performance. When he is not rolling around in the mud, Matt is an Engineer. See you in the lanes!
Matt is also an interviewer, sound editor, podcast minion, and stable cleaner for the Renaissance Festival Podcast.
Shanon Smith
Shanon Smith was born and bred outside Houston, Texas for 18 years before going to school in Kansas for technical theatre, emphasizing in props and costumes. She went to the Texas Renaissance Festival for the first time in her freshman year of high school and was hooked from her very first visit. She started listening to the Renaissance Festival Podcast after a visit to Austin to hear Marc Gunn perform 5 years ago. Shanon started in the field of graphic design in high school and after submitting a logo to the podcast, she was asked to be the resident graphic designer in 2011. When she is not at rehearsal for shows, she enjoys reading, sewing, crafting, and planning for the next faire.
Shanon lives in a small part of the dungeon, where she spends most of her day by candle light drawing pictures of herself, cover art, and naked men. When Shanon is not at the castle, which is normal when she runs out of ink to draw or needs a new quill, she can be found acting on stage at the Naught Wench, to help promote the place. Legend has it that since she started acting at the Naught Wench, she now carries four gold coins in her cleavage at all times, a fact none of the man of this podcast can confirm. Right behind the wall of her desk in the dungeon is her bed chambers, where stacks of books cover every part of her walls, from floor to ceiling. It is her fault that our castle library is missing so many books. In fact, at lest once a month there is a big crash that Tony and the Minions hear, with a load scream as piles of books fall to the grownd. She often says “Why doesn’t
Syndication
The Renaissance Festival Podcast is always available when you download it from our website or from your podcatcher. However, the show is also available in syndication at select locations.
- Every Weds @ 1pm – CelticMelt on Live365
- Coming soon – LandzEdge Radio
- Monday @ 10pm CST – Middle-Earth Network Radio
We are always open to syndicating our show. If you have an internet radio station, an offline radio station, a Renaissance festival, a pub, or something else in mind, please contact us and lets see how we can work together.
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