The Bay Area Renaissance Festival is a decades-long tradition and celebration of Middle Age life, and for one weekend each year it collides with St. Patrick’s Day. Here’s everyone we saw out at the fairgrounds on Auton Road. Tickets to the 2024 Bay Area Renaissance Festival happening weekends through March 31 are still available and start at 24.95 (kids four and under get in free).

Credit: Photo by Kimberly DeFalco

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...