Massachusetts Renaissance Festivals and Faires

• When: A Single Weekend in June
• Where:
  120 Northside Rd
  Charlton, MA 01507
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A Renaissance Faire with a Fantasy Flair.

• When: A Single Weekend in September
• Where:
  Winter Island Park
  50 Winter Island Road
  Salem, MA
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The Salem Pirate Faire features an ongoing storyline each day, and plenty of opportunities for patrons to meet some of the most famed and feared pirate captains in history! The faire also features music, unique variety acts, vendors dealing in clothes, jewelry, gifts, and accessories, and abundant grub and grog (that's food and drink for you landlubbers). Get your sea legs ready, put on your best eye patch, and join us for a day of thrills!

• When: Labor Day Weekend to Mid-October
• Where:
  RT 58 Box 419
  Carver, MA
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King Richard's Faire is a vivid recreation of a 16th Century English marketplace at festival time. Actors, dancers, puppeteers, jugglers, minstrels, mimes, magicians and musicians perform each weekend for the favor of his Royal Highness King Richard and his Queen Katherine.

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