Texas Renaissance Festival to open with new programming and safety measures

[TexasTowelie]

The Texas Renaissance Festival will open for its 46th season on October 3 in Todd Mission, with new programming and safety measures.

The 16th-century-themed festival is getting several new attractions, including the manually propelled DaVinci’s Flying Machine, Dragon Tower Slide, Airy Botter’s Escape Room and a pirate ship museum, according to a Friday release.

The lineup of performers ranges from singer, songwriter, and accordionist Amanda Kitchens to pyro-juggler Thomas Wood.

New food and drink vendors include The Kackle King serving drunken chicken and pork; Wyrmwood Public House offering craft cocktails; and Tea and Strumpets offering ethically sourced teas as well as a high tea available by reservation.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Texas-Renaissance-Festival-to-open-with-new-15602964.php

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. I have a client who will be a worker there.

Crazy. This festival runs thru Thanksgiving weekend. How they are going to limit crowd numbers when over 400,000 attend this annually?


Our festival in Minnesota was cancelled, and we attract 300,000 annually over 7 weekends.

[TexasTowelie]

2. To top things off, the infection rate in most of the surrounding counties is over 3%.

I would classify it as a COVID-19 spreading event.

[efhmc]

3. Lots of good memories of going there when I lived in Houston. Back when it was very new and very

small.