Faerieworlds is an annual music and arts festival currently held annually in the
U.S. state of
Oregon. The festival's primary theme is the "realm of the
faerie". As of 2015, the festival moved to Hornings Hideout near Portland after many recent festivals had been held at
Mount Pisgah in the Howard Buford Park Recreation Area southeast of
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.
As of the 2020 United States Census, Eu ...
. The 2015-2019 festivals were held at Horning's Hideout and 2020 saw a virtual event take place on the live stream platform PORTL. The 2021 has been cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic, and plans for 2022 are in the works pending Oregon health restrictions being lifted.
Events
Faerieworlds was started by Emilio and Kelly Miller-Lopez of the musical group Woodland, and Robert Gould of the transmedia arts company
Imaginosis. The festival features artists, authors, musicians and crafters whose work is connected to or inspired by
folklore, specifically faerie lore.
Locations
Faerieworlds Festivals have now taken place in
Sedona and
Prescott, Arizona,
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe ( ; , Spanish for 'Holy Faith'; tew, Oghá P'o'oge, Tewa for 'white shell water place'; tiw, Hulp'ó'ona, label=Tiwa language, Northern Tiwa; nv, Yootó, Navajo for 'bead + water place') is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. ...
,
Los Angeles, California,
North Plains, Oregon, and from 2005 to 2008 at Secret House Winery in
Veneta, Oregon. Faerieworlds 2009 was moved to
Mount Pisgah to accommodate a larger number of daily attendees and to allow onsite camping to thousands of guests, and it was held there from 2010 to 2014. In 2014, the Lane County Board of Commissioners voted to not allow Faerieworlds, and another event, to use the Buford Park location in 2015.
The result of this was a return of the festival to Hornings Hideout, an outdoor festival venue just west of Portland Oregon.
Performers and artists
The festival main stage has included such acts as
Donovan
Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelic rock and world mus ...
,
Lindsey Stirling, Omnia,
Wardruna,
Faun,
Rasputina, Solas, Woodland, Kila,
Johnny Cunningham,
Susan McKeown
Susan McKeown (born February 6, 1967) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, arranger and producer.
Early years
Susan McKeown was born on February 6, 1967 in Terenure, Dublin, Ireland. She briefly attended the Municipal College of Music, Chatham ...
,
John Renbourn,
Karan Casey,
Gaia Consort
Gaia Consort is the original incarnation of Seattle, Washington, Seattle-based folk-rock, folk rock music-group Bone Poets Orchestra.Gaia Consort http://www.gaiaconsort.com The group, popular in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, was fo ...
,
Frenchy and the Punk,
Sharon Knight
Sharon Knight is a San Francisco-based neopagan composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist known for writing, recording, and performing Celtic fusion music she calls ''Neofolk Romantique''.Interview in witches & pagans, Issue 26, April 2013, p ...
, Priscilla Hernandez and
Qntal
Qntal is a German "electro-medieval" band founded in 1991 by Michael Popp and Ernst Horn. They later added vocalist Syrah (Sigrid Hausen) to complete the band. It has roots in Estampie, an acoustic band based on "authentic" Early music, whereas Q ...
.
Artists and authors featured at Faerieworlds have included
Brian Froud,
Tony DiTerlizzi,
Michael Hague Michael Hague (born September 8, 1948) is an American illustrator, primarily of children's fantasy books.
Biography
Among the books he has illustrated classics such as ''The Wind in the Willows'', '' The Wizard of Oz'', ''The Hobbit'' and the stor ...
,
Wendy Froud, Jen Delyth,
Terri Windling,
Charles Vess,
Charles De Lint and Amy Brown.
FaerieCon
The creators of Faerieworlds also produce an event on the east coast called FaerieCon International, which first took place on the weekend of October 10–12, 2007–2008 in
Philadelphia at the
Pennsylvania Convention Center. FaerieCon moved to Baltimore in 2009 and took place at the Baltimore Marriott Hunt Valley Inn in 2009–2018, and the Sheraton Baltimore Waterfront Hotel in 2019. The 2020 event was canceled due to the ongoing pandemic. In February 2012 and 2013 FaerieCon West was held at the Renaissance Hotel in
Seattle. FaerieCon West eventually was renamed Mythicworlds: Convention and Masquerades, which took place annually at the Seatac Doubletree Hilton in 2017 and 2018.
References
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External links
Faerieworlds Festival official siteFaerieCon official site
Arts festivals in the United States
Fairies
Science fiction conventions in the United States
Festivals in Oregon
Culture of Eugene, Oregon
Annual events in Oregon
Conventions in Oregon