Tennessee Medieval Faire — Attraction in Harriman

I absolutely love this Faire. The Lincoln guy must be a professional Jouster to be able to decide if the Professional Jousters have the right horse or not.

The show is phenomenal and the vendors are absolutely outstanding. The amount of variety in product this year was awesome..someone put a lot of heart into growing it and they have. I have seen this Faire for years and it has only grown, with this year being the best turn out for an incredible variety of vendors. There are sword vendors, jewlery, crowns, teas, honeys, candles, wood products, soaps, leather, costumes, nick nacks and the list goes on and on...they did very good with vendors this year.

Tanasi Fusion is an outstanding belly dancer group. They put a lot of heart and soul into their work. The other acts there perform professionally at large festivals across the USA. There is impressive star power for being a smaller Faire. I am someone that has traveled all across the US going to Ren Faires from Mass all the way to Colorado and this one is a must.

The pricing is great for what value you get. You could easily spend 20$ for one or two tickets to watch a movie for 2 hours and then it is done. You get an entire day of living entertainment. You could laugh at the stage performances, cheer on the Jousters, relax to a wide variety of musical talent, root for Robin or The Sheriff in the Chess Match. Engage with the street characters. It is amazing how hard it is to find that sort of engagement at faires. I have gone up to just about anyone that is a street character and begin talking and playing and get swept up in the moment. If you aren't feeling it in the moment, go grab a beer or two and relax.

It might not be the biggest but it certainly has heart to it and that is coming from a very experienced Ren...

I’m leaving a 2 star review simply for the MO Smoke BBQ vendor, who had decent BBQ. My wife, two of our friends and I attended. This is not what you’d think of as your standard medieval faire or renaissance faire. It’s basically a medieval themed farmers market. Many, many vendors selling many of the same style of items, a small food row, and 4 entertainment spots. I felt bad for the musician working the stage closest to entry who only had like 7 people watching. I also felt bad for the poor Belgian draft horse being made to joust; that’s not proper for a horse of that breed. We watched jousting, the Flaming Ginger, some weird belly dance thing and a bit of live music. It was all pretty disappointing. $20 a person is a steep entry free for the entertainment value. No real games available, sparse entertainment options and a venue with lots of empty space. I understand this event is only in its 5th or 6th year, but we expected more. The historic elements were muffled and didn’t feel particularly accurate. Also a guy carrying around rats tried to steal my phone when I was sitting trying to eat. My wife is deathly allergic to rodent dander and we had to immediately try to decontaminate. Extremely uncalled for and unhappy with our experience. Try one of the faires in Mid TN instead and...

Made plans to go in the Fall 2022. Bought tickets months in advance online but it didn’t matter that we had a digital receipt and a QR code we still had to wait in line for an HOUR! The shortest line ended up being cash only. Rather than have someone at the gate with a scan gun to check QR codes to stream line the process there was just one person with the cash and card lines.

Then it’s annoying because we got in and to buy food you have to have exact change other wise the vendors keep your change as a tip. Then some vendors take card and some don’t. One vendor also tried to coax me to give her a tip just for handing me a water and a soda after I had already paid for it. I’m sorry but you only deserve a tip for excellent customer service and when I came back later she had a snarky attitude.

Food was alright, not great but alright.

Some of the other shop vendors were super helpful and nice.

Our experience was about a 3/5. My main issue is with the venue and some of the snack and soda vendors. Needs to be more...