#parf 2016

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Masterlist of recent PARF videographers

Inspired by a comment on my update of sorts in which the commenter stated that it had never occurred to them to see if anyone had filmed PARF, I present to you a post I have been intending to make literally since starting this blog.

● Michael Ulrich – PARF footage as far back as 2004, hitting stride around 2015, stopping at the end of 2022. Most of the older stuff is scattered in amongst the 2018 footage and again between 2020 and 2021. An excellent source for a one-off example of most in-house shows each year. Quite important for reviewing the Megan-Zach-Mary 'verse. Some of the highest-quality footage. ● Renaissance Road Trips (formerly known as maddog015) – PARF footage as far back as 2007. More out-of-house stuff than in-house, though they've been expanding to include a little more in-house in recent years. Contains footage from many different Faires, so sifting will be required if you are exclusively interested in PARF. Divides shows up into many pieces, which is handy if you want to reference a specific moment, but cumbersome if you want to just watch a whole show. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level. Home of THE Halloween Finale of 2017.

● PARF Performers (formerly known as wavking) – PARF footage from 2011 through 2021, excepting 2014 and 2020. Filming is somewhat scattered and not systematic until around 2016. Occasional videos from NJRF and from non-Faire events taking place on PARF grounds. Overall the best source for Finales and an even selection of everything else for 2016-2018, petering off in 2019. Indispensable for reviewing the Megan-Zach-Mary 'verse, though less so the Mary part. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level.

● Steve Kossor – PARF footage as far back as 2013. Very little in-house stuff; mostly focused on the artists who fall under the heading of “musicians of the shire”, both individually and as a whole. Plenty of stuff from other Faires, too. Most videos are clearly labeled. If you never got to witness the actual Pub Sing from the Before Times, this is where to look, particularly 2019. Very fancy filming, often including multiple cameras at different angles on the same day (goals tbh). Occasional interviews and such. Scattered throughout are videos completely unrelated to Faire, 'cause he's gotta put 'em somewhere.

● MerlinWinchestr – PARF footage as far back as 2013. Hits stride in 2016 (I think), at which point she carefully archives one example of each main-season plotline show, and sometimes Halloween, as well as scattered highlights. Literally the only person besides me to actually bother with non-Halloween plot before 2018, for which I owe her a small portion of my soul. Indispensable for reviewing the Megan-Zach part of the Megan-Zach-Mary 'verse. Nothing from PARF in 2018 or 2019 due to moving to a different state, but filmed stuff from other Faires in the interim. Picked up again in 2020, and expanded the number of shows filmed. Recent videos are carefully labeled. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level. Scattered throughout are many clips from various unrelated concerts and cons and sometimes reenactment, as well as quite a lot of fandom edits of (predictably) both Merlin and Supernatural.

● Joseph Germano – PARF footage as far back as 2015. Almost entirely in-house; largely storyline, combat, improv. Initially filmed things exclusively for himself and his family, not listing the videos publicly for years. As such, the quality of camerawork can occasionally leave something to be desired (though much less, in my opinion, than he claims), hence his playlist called “MeadVision”. Filled the void left by PARF Performers's petering off, and is owed a small portion of my soul for archiving so much Disasterpiece in 2019. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level. Chronology is a mere suggestion until 2021.

● PARF fan – If you're interested in 2017 plotline and combat, I've got everything I filmed up on the YouTube except for Halloween Joust and Halloween Finale. I've also got loads of raw footage of in-house stuff from the first half the 2020 season over on the Facebook. Effort is made with cinematography, though it sometimes backfires. Videos are carefully labeled, but only in the titles, not the thumbnails. Footage quality is perfectly tolerable, though far from professional-level, and the sound is sometimes bad (didn't have a fancy camera until the 2022 season). Indispensable for reviewing 2017, frankly.

● PA Renaissance Faire – PARF footage from 2018 only. One each Court, Melee, Bloody Best, some of the main-season individual Chess fights, Halloween Court, Halloween Chess, and a whole bunch of in-house songs from sundry Finales, many of which were not archived in any other form elsewhere (that I know of).

● Ren Faire with Rose – PARF footage as far back as 2018. Nigh-on exclusively in-house. Mostly highlights rather than entire shows. Features occasional streetwork, particularly from 2019, which is beyond value. Mostly chronological, but 2022 and 2023 and 2024 are intermittently jumbled. Tbh, I haven't gotten around to watching enough of their footage to comment on the quality of camera or camerawork.

● Dan Gualtieri – The newest member of this “team” (none of us actually coordinate or otherwise work together, though we should). Videos from 2022, 2023, and 2024. Mixture of highlights and full shows. Has already filled several gaps. I haven't actually watched any of his videos yet, so I cannot provide comment on camera or camerawork.

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Pick almost any combination of 3 men on the cast of PARF from 2016-present, agree @parf-fan ?

yr locked in a room alone with three adult men but you feel perfectly safe. who are they

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Paradise, Inc.'s Stock Price Increased 14% during 2016.

Paradise, Inc.'s Stock Price Increased 14% during 2016.

PLANT CITY, Fla., Jan. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The common stock of Paradise, Inc. (OTCPK: PARF) increased YTD 14% during 2016 closing at $26.80 per share (Source :Nasdaq.com).  An article in the Tampa Bay Times published on December 30, 2016 incorrectly reported the Company’s stock price decreased YTD 23% during 2016.  A correction was published in the Tampa Bay Times on Wednesday, January 4,…

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To celebrate what’s left of St. Patrick’s Day – or, in this context, Ireland-Is-Hecking-Neat Day – I present every video I could find on YouTube of our own Irish Revels, plus other in-house groups comprised of Irish characters.  I cannot vouch for the chronology until 2017, although I did me best with the Scallywags and the Daughters of Ireland, but 2017 onward has impeccable chronology.  There was some guesswork involved in 2018, as the videos on the Faire’s official channel do not have dates listed, but I was able to get close enough by cross-referencing the lighting with how bundled up people are, supplemented by my own memory, and a splash of observing whether a given week’s hosts were onstage or not.  This playlist does not include any videos of an entire Finale that happens to include the Irish Revels, as that would be impracticable.

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Henry: Hold the fuck up.

Catherine: (stopping) What is it?

Henry: No, I am the fuckup. Please hold me.

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Michael Ulrich’s photography Andrew Lesny‘s photography

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Anyway, I just think it’s pretty cool that the Lady Mayor had that comment in 2016′s pre-Finale about it being so hard to find good help, and then in 2017 along came Sir Walter, the best Master of Revels anyone -- mayor or otherwise -- could ask for.

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You guys

FORESHADOWING

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(Check out Michael Ulrich’s photography!)

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Reginald has been gone from Mount Hope shire for quite a long time, at least a decade in-universe.  The Lady Mayor will only ever say that he is away, has been away for a long time.  I theorize that Reginald died some time ago, probably as a result of illness, and those who were close to him mourned in private.  The Lady Mayor has not let his death be publicly known, for fear of other politicians pressuring her to remarry or cede her authority to her son.  She is all too aware that a woman is taken less seriously when not attached to a man, whether or not the man was particularly competent.

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Your fav is problematic: Zach Minder

hair is suspiciously beautiful

too skilled/talented

makes absurdly funny yet subtle in-jokes about previous casting

calls forth envy through proficiency in all things you wish you could do

can act like hell

a damn good singer

highly skilled in stage-combat

improvises

can LITERALLY JOUST

hair flows in the wind when he rides horses

like really

who the heck said that was okay

brings too much delight

too kind, too warm, too joyful

unfairly perfect overall

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Shoutout to Kelly Morris for such phenomenal casting this season (and last).

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Me: “Someone unfamiliar with PARF, explain this pic.”

Unfamiliar friend: “Scary couple who resembles the Thénardiers tricks small children into doing their bidding.” (Photo is from the Faire’s website, being the thumbnail for 2017’s Noble Finishing School, despite being a photo from 2016. Statistically speaking, the photographer was probably Michael Ulrich.)

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A scientific fact highly relevant to these last few years of the Faire.

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Man, this lot has me read for the exact trash I am.

As a reminder, this is, from left to right: Nicole Cupo (Cecily Bradshaw c.2016, Angelica  "Angie" Finch c.2017, Captain Beatrix La Mariee c.2018), Morgan Harwood  (Havelka Ventinari c.2017, Eileen Ripleigh c.2018, Alannah O'Sullivan  c.2019), Allison Petrillo (Nerissa Rivers c.2014, Morgane Westerly  & assistant music director c.2015, Sorcha O'Connor c.2018,  choreographer & assistant music director c.2019), Katie Markey (Boudicea O’Connor c.2016, Iona Finn c.2017, Jane “the fool” Scott c.2018), and Alison Schaufler (Deidre O’Connor c.2016, Colleen Weaver c.2017).

This team-up concert will stream at 7pm CDT on May first, which is 8pm for those of us in PA.  As before, assuming I am interpreting things correctly, you needn’t be logged into Facebook to stream it.