Vakkotaur

Last year was the last Iowa Renaissance Festival in the Amana Colonies on Labor Day weekend. The IRF organizer is moving it to early May and has something planned for Des Moines on Labor Day weekend and the next couple weekends.

But it seems there will be a faire in the Amana Colonies that weekend after all. Another faire organizer, who used to do A Renaissance Affaire in Osceola, IA got so many requests from folks in the area to keep something there that he's doing just that. Evidently contracts have been signed and this isn't a pipe dream and the Amana Colonies Renaissance Festival will actually happen this year.

It will be interesting to see how the result compares to IRF that was there previous years. I expect differences in attitude to show. I would not be at all surprised to find this year's event more enjoyable as I think this organizer is more looking at having fun and making or at least not losing money, while the earlier organizer left a feeling of trying to make as much money as he could and hoping there was (just) enough to fun for that to happen.