You are invited to a special memorial show for Michael Matheny on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 5pm on the Pavilion Stage at the MN Renaissance Festival.Many thanks to Carr Hagerman and the staff at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival for making this happen.
This show will be a time of remembrance and celebration and will include musical performances by Gallowglass and many of your favorite acts from the MN Renaissance Festival. A traditional “skiffle session” will follow these performances.
The Minnesota Renaissance Festival ("Festival" to some of us, "RenFest" to others, and simply "the Fair" or "the Renaissance" to many more) was a big part of Michael's life. He discovered it in 1983, I think. I know he talked me into going out there in 1984, in the summer between high school and college. He was assistant stage manager of Crown, where the featured act was Penn & Teller. Over the next few years, he talked Ken Larson out of being a juggler and into being a musician, met Lojo and (after some initial rough patches) formed Gallowglass Irish Trio, which made him part of the Festival forever.
There's a lot of history there, and I'm glad that the musicians and cast members will have the chance to remember Michael in the place where one of his stories began.
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This is wonderful, Ren Fest was a big part of his life and many of the friends he made there were friends for life.
I saw Lojo play a few weeks back and we chatted after the show, so I'd heard that this might be brewing. I'm so glad they made it happen.
I will definitely go to this. For several years, seeing Michael and Kevin at the Renaissance Festival was the highlight of a trip to the Twin Cities when I was in my twenties or so.
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