What Are Some Activities During The Big Island Rendezvous?
Entertainment: The festival hosts different performance areas with music and dance continuously throughout both days. The entrance stage has a sound system adjacent to the food court area. The musicians minstrel around the grounds to give a more intimate performance to smaller audiences under the trees or in the Bear Claw Tavern. Celtic, Bluegrass, Gaelic, old time country, gospel and Cajun music are some of the type of performances presented. Arts & Crafts: Properly attired re-enactors display and sell their wares. Artisans from 8 states attend including craftspersons and crafts such as blacksmithing, candle making, weaving and spinning, silver smithing, copper working, woodworking, clothing makers, painters, stoneware and porcelain pottery, scrimshaw, gunsmithing, birch bark canoes and furniture building. All types of colonial period trades and products are sold and various skills of the artists are demonstrated each day. Large Tipi and Primitive Encampment: Over 300 tents and campfi
