Dave’s Good Stuff

Joe, one of the founding members of Maid in the Myddle found my site vie searching for "Maid in the Myddle" on Google. He’s putting up his own site (http://www.cmemusic.com/), and just wanted to see what else was out there.

We’ve written a couple times, and aside from having my thoughts echoed and substantiated, he mentioned that almost all the MiM music is digitized. I could finally have CD’s of their music, rather than my old and decaying cassette tapes, for which I don’t even have a decent player anymore! I’m just waiting on prices now.

It was interesting to hear from someone with far more experience with Renaissance faires say basically the same thing I did about the State of the Faire. He reminded me that the KCRF was once a benefit for the KC Art Institute. They got out, I’m guessing around 1995-1996, at about the same time MiM called it quits. From there, the KCRF became more about making money than making a good show. The current management wants acts that either draw large crowds, or will play for dirt cheap. It’s sad, really, and it’s apparently happening to faires across the country. I know my memory has clouded things (remembering the good things, filtering out the bad), but I definitely remember it as more of a live action role playing sort of experience, and less of a mall.