September 7, 2024 • 14 mins
For more than 40 years, King Richard's Faire in Carver has been the place for Renaissance lovers to step back in time to sixteenth century living, complete with jousting, artisans, costumes, performers, musicians, and those big turkey legs you can snack on. Aimée Shapiro Sedley, the Chief Operating Officer of the Faire, joins Nichole to talk about what's in store for this year's event.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
From WBZ News Radio in Boston. This is New England Weekend.
Each week we come together and talk about all the
topics important to you and the place where you live.
It is so good to be back with you again
this week. I'm Nicole Davis. Sometimes when you're working late
and you're overwhelmed and your phone's blowing up and you're
getting all these emails, you might just wonder what it
would be like to live in a simpler time when
(00:30):
none of this was really an issue. Well, centuries ago,
like medieval times, life was very different. And for the
next few weeks, if you want to go to Carver,
a long running event can help you immerse yourself in
that time. King Richard's Fair is the largest Renaissance festival
in New England. For the next few weeks, you can
dress up in your finest adornments, go watch some jousting,
have some snacks, watch the performers. There's a lot going on.
(00:53):
Amy Shapiro Sudley is the general manager of the fair.
She's here now to talk with us about all of this. Amy,
it's great to have Thank you so much for being here.
And you know, when we say a long running event,
we're talking about decades.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
This year will be the forty third season of King
Richard's Fair, the New England Renaissance Festival. We are a
sixteenth century Renaissance festival in the forest. Once you come
through our gates, you are transported back into a beautiful
village that you would experience in the sixteenth century, made
up of artisans and performers and fabulous food and drink,
(01:28):
and we run for eight weekends starting August thirty first
through October twentieth.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That I imagine must take a lot of volunteers and
performers and people behind the scenes to get done. I'm
sure it's a pretty big operation.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh. Absolutely. We work on it all year round to
be open for the eighteen days, and then we pray
we have great weather.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, that helps around here. You never really know, especially
during the fall. I mean it's kind of a take
what you get, I.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Guess exactly exactly, And that is the nice thing is
that you know we are open and we are so
excited to have our guests. This year. We have so
many new artisans joining us and fabulous new performers. Very
excited to have them. People walk through our gates for
this season.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, let's talk about some of those newer performers. I
noticed a familiar name on one of those, John Lepier's.
Jack is a whipper. He's actually a fellow ex radio guy.
This is his father, correct, Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
This is his father, and his father started with us
way back. I'm sure Jack was a youngster at the time,
and his father had been with us forever and with
the Big Apple Circus, and so he taught Jack everything
he knows. And this year John Lepier's is going to
be performing a whip show and a throwing knife show,
and it'll be a little bit of stuff that Jack
has done in the past, and he's just the best.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm really curious to know about. Hey, Nanny Nunny, what
is this all about.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, they are sister act with Comedic Deal. They are
very well seasoned performers. They've been around for a very
long time, and it took me an extremely long time
to get them to be able to have availability to
come to our show. So we are featuring them during
our first five weekends of the eight weekend show. They sing,
(03:14):
they're funny. You know, whether you're religious or not religious,
you will love them.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Now. I also appreciate that you have a lot of
local talent, because you've got some people from Louisiana, from
Washington State, but you've also got to say sirc Us
for example, they're from the South Shore in the Boston
area too.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes they are, and they are new this year and
they are acrobatic and aerialists and we're very excited to
have them join us. And the neat thing is that
men that are doing the aerial work, which is something
you normally don't see when you're talking about aerialists.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, for sure. And also the another local act we
have Leaping Leopard. Now, I've seen a lot of slack
rope stuff lately on TikTok and I'm always fascinated by
people who do the slack rope and don't just like
careene off. This is just one of the things that
Brian does.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yes, it is, and he also works with Circus and
so we get a couple of different acts from this
group and we're very excited to have him join us.
And he'll only be with us so far our opening weekend,
so encourage people to come opening weekend and see him
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So what are some of the returning acts that people
might be familiar with that might be coming back this year.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We have the hilarious comedy duos. We have the Mud Beggars,
our famous mud beggars that compete for your favor and
whoever loses has to do some very interesting things in
the mud. And we also have our Washing Well Wenches
returning as they are hilarious and it's a very interactive act,
(04:44):
and most of our acts are all interactive, which is great,
and they bring the audience in. And I can see
the Washingwall Wenches at each of their shows every single
day that we run, and I still laugh. I just
love having them.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Also, I noticed that you have the unicycling Unicorn. What
on earth is this? I'm so curious.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He is an extremely talented juggler as well as on
a unicycle, and he has a fourteen foot high unicycle
that he juggles with fire and knives and he has
great comedic presence and enjoyable to watch.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And I see the miracle Fish puppets are coming back too.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yes they are. And he has several live life size
giant puppets and that he's inside them all and it's
such a big presence here at the fair. You can
find them wherever he is on the fare sites and
lots of the little kids just adore him.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Now, these are acts from all over the country. How
do you, I guess, how do you find these people?
Is there like a circuit for ren Fair performances performers?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They now basically send us audition videos. We used to
have to go, you know, to state the state to
find some very exciting and new acts that people have
never seen before. And now we're lucky that we're so
well established that people seek us out. And same with artisans,
(06:12):
the wonderful craftsmen that come from all over the country.
They are always looking to get into new shows and
new markets so that they can display and hawk the
wares that they have created.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And the beautiful clothing and the jewelry and all the
period materials that they can make. These artisans. I've been
to the fair a couple times. It is incredible to
me how historically accurate it is and the time and
the energy that they put into making these beautiful, beautiful pieces.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yes, I mean, just like we've you know, work all
year to get the show open and find new and
exciting things to bring to our guests, these artisans are
working all year round as well to create enough products
so that they have it to sell for all of
our guests. And we have very talented, very talented artisans. Yes,
and we have fabulous food and drink and are scrumptious here.
(07:03):
We just want to eat all day.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, let's talk for a second about the food here,
because I cannot go to a run fair without getting
a turkey leg, So please tell me the turkey legs
are there.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Of course they are. They are our biggest seller. We
have a giant, spit roasted two pound turkey leg. It
is a feast in itself. And we also have fabulous
greuad bowls filled with chowder and stew. And we have
towering chocolate cake and warm apple crisp with ice cream.
We have fish and chips. We have wonderfully handmade shepherd's pie.
(07:37):
Ore chef's been very busy prepping and working so that
we have all of our yummy, scrumptious treats for everyone
to eat.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And what if somebody, say, for example, has a food
allergy or perhaps a sensitivity, can they still eat at
the fair or no?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yes? So today, obviously, in today's society, there's so many
allergies and things going around that prevent people from being
able to eat like we all used to eat, or
some of us still eat. And yes, we have many
items that are vegetarian or dairy free. You're gluten free,
you know, for instance, like our you know, our some
of our stews, you can ask for it with a
(08:13):
gluten free bread bowl, so or we can do our
peasant patty with a gluten free bun. You know, we
were able to switch that up. They just have to.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Ask, okay. And of course you need to have a
good glass of either mead or beer. If you want
to walk around without some champagne, I'm sure you've.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Got that too, Oh definitely. And last year we started
doing some wonderful more craft beers and we have a
pumpkin Ale and we have a hoppy i Pa that's
the King's Brew. It's our special brew that we work
with a local brewery. For this year, we're adding a
whiskey drinks to some of our adult beverages as well
(08:54):
as specialty cocktails with Steel forty three vodka. It's it's
just wonderful. We have so many things for young and
old whatever, whatever your case. You'll find something here to
just delight.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
With and then you can burn it all off in
the gaming Glen, which you've got a bunch of different
rides and games and all sorts of stuff going on
in there.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Oh yes, the test of strength. That'll definitely burn some
calories if you can try to do it and ring
the bell. We have a huge, beautiful the Griffin. It's
a swing that is for all ages. We have Jacob's
Ladder which is quite challenging. I've never been able to
make it up to it and ring the bell there.
And we have archery, we have knife throwing, we have
(09:36):
axe throwing, and we have you know, King of the
log So it doesn't matter how old you are, you
can come and find some exciting games and rides here.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So do you have to dress in period clothing to
go or what if you don't have any medieval area
or medieval era clothing? Can you just kind of show
up as you are?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh gosh, that's the best part of the show. I
would say maybe fifty percent one of our guests do
come in costume. We have fifty percent that don't come
in costume. We also have one of our artisans is
a she rents out her clothing during the day and
then everything's obviously dry clean the next day. But if
you come and you decide you want to be in costume,
you can rent a costume for the day. There's several
(10:16):
things you can get everywhere in this realm, you know,
from leather clothing to woolen capes to beautiful jewelry. You
can have your fortune red here, you can have your
face painted, you can have henna tattoos drawn on your body.
It is just such a great experience for anyone and everyone.
(10:36):
You don't have to be into the renaissance period time.
You just come through our gates. We're an outdoor entertainment
event where there's food, drink, shopping and great entertainment.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Beautiful and you could really make a whole weekend of
it if you wanted to, because it seems like there's
a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh well, in addition, of course, so every weekend we
have something seemed going on, and so we just look
online at our website at King Richards Fair dot net
and it'll show you which weekends we have special events
happening that might pique your interest even more. But even
though we have seen events every day, there's still everything
else being offered. And in addition, we have three weddings.
(11:14):
This year at the Fair, we have several bachelor and
bachelorette parties, wedding proposals, birthday celebrations.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's great, Okay, Okay, So if somebody wants to maybe
make the Fair a more permanent part of their life,
that's a possibility as well.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It sounds like absolutely we have so many people that
have met here and then gotten married here and then
had children here. Oh it's wonderful. I know, I know
it's a family you know, it's a family event, and
it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, you know, thinking about that you're part of this.
How does this feel to be somebody kind of front
and center, kind of leading this into another generation of
ren Fair fun?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yes, yes, my parents did create the show, and I
grew up, you know, running around the show, and I've
done pretty much anything you can imagine, from dancing with
the Gypsy dancers to selling t shirts or tickets or
picking up you know, garbage, doing everything there is to do,
parking cars, and now not to date myself. But you know,
I have kids that could easily come if they'd want
(12:18):
to into the business for a third generation.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yes, let's talk about ticketing, Let's talk about how people
can find out more. You said, there's theam weekends. Tell
us about tickets first and foremost, how much are those?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Okay? So last year we started selling tickets, well, we
started selling tickets online a while back. Now, last year
we started selling dated tickets. So you pick a date
you want to come, and that's the date you come.
That helps with crowd control, that helps with parking control,
and that way everyone can have a wonderful time while
inside the show. And so you can buy your ticket
(12:54):
in advance. You pick your date you want to come.
If something happens, like we all know it's always possible
soccer game, for a kid gets switched or something, you
can transfer your tickets to another available fair date.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh good.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
So that is a nice thing about the tickets. We
do sell a handful of tickets at the front gate
on the days of the show, but basically the majority
of our tickets are sold online via our website soult.
Our adult tickets are forty six dollars. Our children's ticket
ages four to eleven our twenty six dollars three and under.
(13:29):
Our free. Our parking is free and this gives you
seven and a half hours of outdoor entertainment, fun, shopping, eating,
and just immersing yourself and kind of escaping your own reality.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
What is the parking situation like? I mean, you say
it's free, but is it one of those situations where
if you get there earlier, it's probably better.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I mean, I personally like to get somewhere earlier because
then I get a better parking spot. However, we do
on a busy day, we do have auxiliary parking lots
and bus shuttles.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay, perfect, That works out nicely. So if people want
to find out more about the fair, if they want
to find out about those themed weekends, keep in touch
with you. How can they find you?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh? Absolutely? Our website is the best place at King
Richard's Fair with an e dot net and it has
everything you can find everything you want, our entertainment schedule,
what food and beverages we sell, where and when, and
all the themed events. Everything you need to know.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
A may thank you so much for the time on
the show. I really appreciate it, and have a great season.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh thank you, my pleasure, and we'll help to see
you out here.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Have a safe and healthy weekend. Please join me again
next week for another edition of the show. I'm Nicole
Davis from WBZ news Radio on iHeartRadio
From WBZ News Radio in Boston. This is New England Weekend.
Each week we come together and talk about all the
topics important to you and the place where you live.
It is so good to be back with you again
this week. I'm Nicole Davis. Sometimes when you're working late
and you're overwhelmed and your phone's blowing up and you're
getting all these emails, you might just wonder what it
would be like to live in a simpler time when
(00:30):
none of this was really an issue. Well, centuries ago,
like medieval times, life was very different. And for the
next few weeks, if you want to go to Carver,
a long running event can help you immerse yourself in
that time. King Richard's Fair is the largest Renaissance festival
in New England. For the next few weeks, you can
dress up in your finest adornments, go watch some jousting,
have some snacks, watch the performers. There's a lot going on.
(00:53):
Amy Shapiro Sudley is the general manager of the fair.
She's here now to talk with us about all of this. Amy,
it's great to have Thank you so much for being here.
And you know, when we say a long running event,
we're talking about decades.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
This year will be the forty third season of King
Richard's Fair, the New England Renaissance Festival. We are a
sixteenth century Renaissance festival in the forest. Once you come
through our gates, you are transported back into a beautiful
village that you would experience in the sixteenth century, made
up of artisans and performers and fabulous food and drink,
(01:28):
and we run for eight weekends starting August thirty first
through October twentieth.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That I imagine must take a lot of volunteers and
performers and people behind the scenes to get done. I'm
sure it's a pretty big operation.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh. Absolutely. We work on it all year round to
be open for the eighteen days, and then we pray
we have great weather.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, that helps around here. You never really know, especially
during the fall. I mean it's kind of a take
what you get, I.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Guess exactly exactly, And that is the nice thing is
that you know we are open and we are so
excited to have our guests. This year. We have so
many new artisans joining us and fabulous new performers. Very
excited to have them. People walk through our gates for
this season.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, let's talk about some of those newer performers. I
noticed a familiar name on one of those, John Lepier's.
Jack is a whipper. He's actually a fellow ex radio guy.
This is his father, correct, Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
This is his father, and his father started with us
way back. I'm sure Jack was a youngster at the time,
and his father had been with us forever and with
the Big Apple Circus, and so he taught Jack everything
he knows. And this year John Lepier's is going to
be performing a whip show and a throwing knife show,
and it'll be a little bit of stuff that Jack
has done in the past, and he's just the best.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm really curious to know about. Hey, Nanny Nunny, what
is this all about.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, they are sister act with Comedic Deal. They are
very well seasoned performers. They've been around for a very
long time, and it took me an extremely long time
to get them to be able to have availability to
come to our show. So we are featuring them during
our first five weekends of the eight weekend show. They sing,
(03:14):
they're funny. You know, whether you're religious or not religious,
you will love them.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Now. I also appreciate that you have a lot of
local talent, because you've got some people from Louisiana, from
Washington State, but you've also got to say sirc Us
for example, they're from the South Shore in the Boston
area too.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes they are, and they are new this year and
they are acrobatic and aerialists and we're very excited to
have them join us. And the neat thing is that
men that are doing the aerial work, which is something
you normally don't see when you're talking about aerialists.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, for sure. And also the another local act we
have Leaping Leopard. Now, I've seen a lot of slack
rope stuff lately on TikTok and I'm always fascinated by
people who do the slack rope and don't just like
careene off. This is just one of the things that
Brian does.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yes, it is, and he also works with Circus and
so we get a couple of different acts from this
group and we're very excited to have him join us.
And he'll only be with us so far our opening weekend,
so encourage people to come opening weekend and see him
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So what are some of the returning acts that people
might be familiar with that might be coming back this year.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We have the hilarious comedy duos. We have the Mud Beggars,
our famous mud beggars that compete for your favor and
whoever loses has to do some very interesting things in
the mud. And we also have our Washing Well Wenches
returning as they are hilarious and it's a very interactive act,
(04:44):
and most of our acts are all interactive, which is great,
and they bring the audience in. And I can see
the Washingwall Wenches at each of their shows every single
day that we run, and I still laugh. I just
love having them.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Also, I noticed that you have the unicycling Unicorn. What
on earth is this? I'm so curious.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He is an extremely talented juggler as well as on
a unicycle, and he has a fourteen foot high unicycle
that he juggles with fire and knives and he has
great comedic presence and enjoyable to watch.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And I see the miracle Fish puppets are coming back too.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yes they are. And he has several live life size
giant puppets and that he's inside them all and it's
such a big presence here at the fair. You can
find them wherever he is on the fare sites and
lots of the little kids just adore him.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Now, these are acts from all over the country. How
do you, I guess, how do you find these people?
Is there like a circuit for ren Fair performances performers?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They now basically send us audition videos. We used to
have to go, you know, to state the state to
find some very exciting and new acts that people have
never seen before. And now we're lucky that we're so
well established that people seek us out. And same with artisans,
(06:12):
the wonderful craftsmen that come from all over the country.
They are always looking to get into new shows and
new markets so that they can display and hawk the
wares that they have created.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And the beautiful clothing and the jewelry and all the
period materials that they can make. These artisans. I've been
to the fair a couple times. It is incredible to
me how historically accurate it is and the time and
the energy that they put into making these beautiful, beautiful pieces.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yes, I mean, just like we've you know, work all
year to get the show open and find new and
exciting things to bring to our guests, these artisans are
working all year round as well to create enough products
so that they have it to sell for all of
our guests. And we have very talented, very talented artisans. Yes,
and we have fabulous food and drink and are scrumptious here.
(07:03):
We just want to eat all day.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, let's talk for a second about the food here,
because I cannot go to a run fair without getting
a turkey leg, So please tell me the turkey legs
are there.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Of course they are. They are our biggest seller. We
have a giant, spit roasted two pound turkey leg. It
is a feast in itself. And we also have fabulous
greuad bowls filled with chowder and stew. And we have
towering chocolate cake and warm apple crisp with ice cream.
We have fish and chips. We have wonderfully handmade shepherd's pie.
(07:37):
Ore chef's been very busy prepping and working so that
we have all of our yummy, scrumptious treats for everyone
to eat.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And what if somebody, say, for example, has a food
allergy or perhaps a sensitivity, can they still eat at
the fair or no?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yes? So today, obviously, in today's society, there's so many
allergies and things going around that prevent people from being
able to eat like we all used to eat, or
some of us still eat. And yes, we have many
items that are vegetarian or dairy free. You're gluten free,
you know, for instance, like our you know, our some
of our stews, you can ask for it with a
(08:13):
gluten free bread bowl, so or we can do our
peasant patty with a gluten free bun. You know, we
were able to switch that up. They just have to.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Ask, okay. And of course you need to have a
good glass of either mead or beer. If you want
to walk around without some champagne, I'm sure you've.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Got that too, Oh definitely. And last year we started
doing some wonderful more craft beers and we have a
pumpkin Ale and we have a hoppy i Pa that's
the King's Brew. It's our special brew that we work
with a local brewery. For this year, we're adding a
whiskey drinks to some of our adult beverages as well
(08:54):
as specialty cocktails with Steel forty three vodka. It's it's
just wonderful. We have so many things for young and
old whatever, whatever your case. You'll find something here to
just delight.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
With and then you can burn it all off in
the gaming Glen, which you've got a bunch of different
rides and games and all sorts of stuff going on
in there.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Oh yes, the test of strength. That'll definitely burn some
calories if you can try to do it and ring
the bell. We have a huge, beautiful the Griffin. It's
a swing that is for all ages. We have Jacob's
Ladder which is quite challenging. I've never been able to
make it up to it and ring the bell there.
And we have archery, we have knife throwing, we have
(09:36):
axe throwing, and we have you know, King of the
log So it doesn't matter how old you are, you
can come and find some exciting games and rides here.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So do you have to dress in period clothing to
go or what if you don't have any medieval area
or medieval era clothing? Can you just kind of show
up as you are?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh gosh, that's the best part of the show. I
would say maybe fifty percent one of our guests do
come in costume. We have fifty percent that don't come
in costume. We also have one of our artisans is
a she rents out her clothing during the day and
then everything's obviously dry clean the next day. But if
you come and you decide you want to be in costume,
you can rent a costume for the day. There's several
(10:16):
things you can get everywhere in this realm, you know,
from leather clothing to woolen capes to beautiful jewelry. You
can have your fortune red here, you can have your
face painted, you can have henna tattoos drawn on your body.
It is just such a great experience for anyone and everyone.
(10:36):
You don't have to be into the renaissance period time.
You just come through our gates. We're an outdoor entertainment
event where there's food, drink, shopping and great entertainment.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Beautiful and you could really make a whole weekend of
it if you wanted to, because it seems like there's
a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh well, in addition, of course, so every weekend we
have something seemed going on, and so we just look
online at our website at King Richards Fair dot net
and it'll show you which weekends we have special events
happening that might pique your interest even more. But even
though we have seen events every day, there's still everything
else being offered. And in addition, we have three weddings.
(11:14):
This year at the Fair, we have several bachelor and
bachelorette parties, wedding proposals, birthday celebrations.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's great, Okay, Okay, So if somebody wants to maybe
make the Fair a more permanent part of their life,
that's a possibility as well.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It sounds like absolutely we have so many people that
have met here and then gotten married here and then
had children here. Oh it's wonderful. I know, I know
it's a family you know, it's a family event, and
it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, you know, thinking about that you're part of this.
How does this feel to be somebody kind of front
and center, kind of leading this into another generation of
ren Fair fun?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yes, yes, my parents did create the show, and I
grew up, you know, running around the show, and I've
done pretty much anything you can imagine, from dancing with
the Gypsy dancers to selling t shirts or tickets or
picking up you know, garbage, doing everything there is to do,
parking cars, and now not to date myself. But you know,
I have kids that could easily come if they'd want
(12:18):
to into the business for a third generation.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yes, let's talk about ticketing, Let's talk about how people
can find out more. You said, there's theam weekends. Tell
us about tickets first and foremost, how much are those?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Okay? So last year we started selling tickets, well, we
started selling tickets online a while back. Now, last year
we started selling dated tickets. So you pick a date
you want to come, and that's the date you come.
That helps with crowd control, that helps with parking control,
and that way everyone can have a wonderful time while
inside the show. And so you can buy your ticket
(12:54):
in advance. You pick your date you want to come.
If something happens, like we all know it's always possible
soccer game, for a kid gets switched or something, you
can transfer your tickets to another available fair date.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh good.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
So that is a nice thing about the tickets. We
do sell a handful of tickets at the front gate
on the days of the show, but basically the majority
of our tickets are sold online via our website soult.
Our adult tickets are forty six dollars. Our children's ticket
ages four to eleven our twenty six dollars three and under.
(13:29):
Our free. Our parking is free and this gives you
seven and a half hours of outdoor entertainment, fun, shopping, eating,
and just immersing yourself and kind of escaping your own reality.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
What is the parking situation like? I mean, you say
it's free, but is it one of those situations where
if you get there earlier, it's probably better.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I mean, I personally like to get somewhere earlier because
then I get a better parking spot. However, we do
on a busy day, we do have auxiliary parking lots
and bus shuttles.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay, perfect, That works out nicely. So if people want
to find out more about the fair, if they want
to find out about those themed weekends, keep in touch
with you. How can they find you?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh? Absolutely? Our website is the best place at King
Richard's Fair with an e dot net and it has
everything you can find everything you want, our entertainment schedule,
what food and beverages we sell, where and when, and
all the themed events. Everything you need to know.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
A may thank you so much for the time on
the show. I really appreciate it, and have a great season.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh thank you, my pleasure, and we'll help to see
you out here.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Have a safe and healthy weekend. Please join me again
next week for another edition of the show. I'm Nicole
Davis from WBZ news Radio on iHeartRadio
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