Just five days to go until the return of the Isle of Wight Community Renaissance Festival.
Taking place at Smallbrook Stadium, the festival promises to pack in a huge amount over six hours on Sunday.
As we mentioned at the weekend, there’ll be plenty of live music, market stalls, circus skills, Punch and Judy and simply loads for the kids to do in the Kids Kingdom.
Also confirmed for the day is Mark Tuckey from IOW Ghost Experience who will be returning once again to compere. As anyone who attended last year will testify, he did an amazing job and has come back for more in 2010!
Helen Davenport returns
The very talented Helen Davenport and her team will be dressing the Enchanted Realm, so expect lots of loveliness (her ladies worked a treat at Jazz on the Meadow last weekend).
If you’d like some mystical advice, there be a clairvoyant and Tarot reader on hand.
As well as live music on the main stage, there’ll also be music in the Moroccan tent as well as acoustic music in the beer tent including the likes of Becky Rice and The Lost Years Trio.
Lions on board too
The IOW Lions’ Groups will be getting involved too. As well as being the usual helpful selves and manning gates and car park, they’ll also be bringing a coconut shy and skittle run! Not only that, but they’ll be returning with their very popular hog roast.
As well as music, they’ll also be dance with the Eastern Promise Belly Dance, Oyster Girls and the Bloodstone group.
And to really give it a renaissance feel, the rather superb Ad Lib Theatre will be performing The Canterbury Tales throughout the day.
Free bus service from Ryde
Organisers have gone the extra mile by providing a free minibus service from Ryde.
It will be running throughout the day, every half hour from 10.30am.
- St John’s Car Park (The Park Centre) – High Park Road, Ryde
- Hovercraft Coach Park – Esplanade, Ryde
- Co-op, West Street, Ryde
- Smallbrook Stadium
Route:
Look out for the Park Centre Community Minibus.
Full lineup of the day’s events can be found on Events on the Wight
