10 — THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016
Local
Local goes to All Hallows Fantasy Faire
BY SAMANTHA
O’CONNER
Samantha@TheBakerCountyPress.com
For the fi fth year, Scot
Violette performed as
Professor Algernon at the
All Hallows Fantasy Faire
in Sonora, California.
Violette is recognized
at the faire as the one who
introduced them to Steam-
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things run on clockworks
and steam.
Books in this genre
include Jules Verne’s
“Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea”
and H.G. Wells’ “The Time
Machine.”
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Professor Algernon
performed three magic
shows Saturday and three
on Sunday.
He shared a stage with
Lynx, a fellow performer
who entertained audiences
with magic, comedy, and
sword swallowing.
They also shared their
stage with the Marigold
Collective; dancers who
performed in honor of Dia
de los Muertos (Day of the
Dead).
On a second stage at
the fair, in the eating area,
music groups performed
for audiences of fellow
performers, vendors, and
guests.
Some of the performing
bands were the Vintage
Vandals, the Black Irish
Band, and Tragically
White.
In Sonora, they celebrate
the Celtic New Year’s Fes-
tival and have celebrated
it for 31 years. The All
Hallows Fantasy Faire has
been up and running for
eight years alongside the
Celtic Festival.
“We wanted to cel-
ebrate Samhain—Celtic
New year,” Gary Britt Jr.
a co-owner of the faire
explained. “The Celts only
had two seasons; summer
and winter. October 31 was
the New Year into winter
because winter is the fi rst
season and summer was
the last in the year, so this
was the festival to honor
that.”
According to the All
Hallows Fantasy Faire
website, “Samhain is a
Gaelic festival marking the
end of the harvest season
the end of the Celtic year
when the Holly King
defeats the Oak King ‘The
Bringer of Light’ and the
beginning of winter or the
‘darker half’ of the year.
We burn the Harvestman
in honnor of the fallen Oak
King as a symbolic funeral.
‘Out of the Ashes he will
be reborn.’”
The fair hosted different
vendors who sold mer-
chandise from handmade
jewelry, clothing, and other
accessories, to natural
stones and goats milk soap.
They had different interac-
Samantha O’Conner / The Baker County Press
Local Scot Violette performed in California last
week, bringing this youngster on stage with him.
tive activities, such as
Pirate School, where kids
and their parents could
learn how to be a pirate.
The fair is held every
year in October, the week-
end before Halloween.
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