Performers
our talented main-stage and children’s tent performers
Brothers Blackquill
Announcing your emcees: Brothers Blackquill! Jonathan and Quentin will guide our audience through a day of delight and joy with their signature humor, wit, and foolishness. You can also catch them in performance - scroll down to find them, and the rest of our fantastic performers
Bess & Marley
Join your new best friends for folk tunes, comedy, and Archimedes the carrier pigeon!
Brothers Dymm
Join this comedy duo as they cross words and blades while attempting to make sense of their story. Come for the promise of a good show–stay in case this time it happens!
Carmilla the Bard
Maidens want her, men fear her. Holder of the whimsymax title, scoundrel of every village and port, Carmilla graces this village on her continental tour. So come one, come all, and join this bard babe with a blade for a rolicking time of laughter and song! Come sing along to drinking songs and dance with your friends, meet her sword, and hear stories from far and wide. All are welcome in this tavern.
Chip & Bandit
It’s Chip & Bandit! Join these two for jugglery, magic, wonder, awe - and a dash of danger!
Presented in partnership with T2D2 Toys
The Fencers of Panache
The Fencers of Panache (the FOPs) are skilled and daring swordsmen! Gustav, Jean-Luc, and Monsieur Beouf travel the world seeking the most beautiful violence, the most stimulating people, the most dangerous art - and frommage. Come witness their sharp steel and sharper tongues - and don't you dare mention the Three Musketeers.
Written by Matthew Smith and Jeff Wolfthal, choreographed and performed by Counterfeit Combat
Mass Mini One-Shot
Scheduling a D&D Session is tough- luckily, Faire in the Field has you covered! Join Rough Magic’s Mike Danovich as he takes the audience through an improvised Mass Mini Oneshot where the whole audience calls the shots and rolls the dice, featuring the Brothers Blackquill as your (n)PCs!
Presented in partnership with Rough Magic
Oh no, Nuncle!
Announcing: Nuncle the Wizard, and his friend Ella! Find them in our kids’ tent throughout the Faire day!
Ella Kramer is a rogue multi-media artist with a background in fabric arts. She picked up clowning in 2022 then puppetry shortly after, and she doesn’t intend to set them down. Her passion is due to her intrigue and dedication to creating interpersonal connections through her art.
Originally from Idaho, Ella moved to Chicago in 2021. Ella is a co-founder of Pookie Puppet Slam and has performed puppetry and clown across Chicago.
Ship Shape
Shiver me timbers, it’s Ship Shape! Join us for a music and comedy show complete with side-splitting piratical jests and harmonies so tight that they’ll make any landlubber a she shanties fanatic! Let this cook, swabber, and surgeon entertain you while they try to find their land legs – which might have gone down with the ship – and let the mayhem commence! Join Frankie, Swiss, and Mack for a shipload of fun!
Ursa Miles
Find Ursa Miles in our kids' tent throughout the day for fantastical tales and enchanting stories - you and your littles will be swept away by Ursa's engaging and delightful tales!
Ursa is a professional storyteller most recently seen at the Stone Soup Storytelling Festival and The St. Louis Storytelling Festival.