Scarborough's 'Last Huzzah' for 2025 is this weekend
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX. (May 19, 2025): It’s the Last Huzzah! The 3-day Memorial Day Weekend, May 24, 25, & 26, 2025 will close out the 44th season of Scarborough Renaissance Festival® (Scarborough Faire®) with a grand celebration of music, merriment, and magic!
The Last Huzzah weekend brings a variety of special events. On Saturday & Sunday, visitors can join in the fun of the Stein Holding Competitions at 4:30 pm each day at the Royal Pavilion for the chance to win their very own Souvenir Stein. On Sunday, it will be Topsy Turvy Day as queens become beggars and villagers become kings. Who will you become?!
Scarborough Renaissance Festival® (Scarborough Faire®) will pay tribute to our servicemen and servicewomen on Memorial Day Monday, May 26 as they invite all current and retired Military Service members to receive a complimentary yellow sash to commemorate their service and march in the Grande Parade. Sashes can be picked up at the Village Armory located in the Crown Meadow area of the Festival until 12:00 noon. A select group of military members will also be carrying a large American Flag along with the flags representing each branch of the U.S. military in the Grande Parade.
Immediately following the Parade there will be a special memorial and tribute ceremony for our fallen servicemen and servicewomen conducted by Captain Richard Arlington “Rick” Briggs, Jr. US Army, Retired. Captain Briggs is a 30-year veteran of the US Army serving in units domestically and across the world including deployments in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Following his retirement in 2009, Captain Briggs became a Theater Arts educator and continues to actively support education, the arts, and military veterans.
As always, active-duty Military members, Veterans, and up to 4 family members are offered an admission discount of $3 off single day adult admission when they show their military ID at the Festival’s ticket booth.
“We invite everyone to come out for the final three days of our 44th season to experience the magic and merriment that is Scarborough Faire!” says Helaine Thompson, Director of Marketing & Communications of Scarborough Renaissance Festival®. “There is no place quite like Scarborough for extraordinary entertainment, interactive fun, amazing crafts, and artisan demonstrations. We look forward to wrapping up our 2025 season with an awesome final weekend this Saturday, Sunday, and Memorial Day Monday – you don’t want to miss it!”.
Scarborough Renaissance Festival® (Scarborough Faire®) is a full day of interactive fun for everyone, 16th Century style with full-combat jousting (new for 2025), Birds of Prey exhibitions, and 20+ stages of incredible, interactive live entertainment. There are Renaissance rides, games of skill, the Royal Menagerie Petting Zoo, knighting ceremonies, a Living Chess Match, food & drink fit for Royalty, and much more.
Limited engagement entertainment this weekend includes Celtic Legacy, Jim Mackenzie the Comedian with Mad Skills, Lady Genevieve, Queen Chikamharida, Statue Comedius de Marbelous, Syndicate Academy of Sword & Skill, Terra Prongwort, and Troubadork! Tobias the Adequate. Plus, this weekend will be your final chance to see Don Juan and Esmeralda before they retire! Showtimes and the complete entertainment schedule can be found at www.SRFestival.com.
Visitors will want to explore the Artisan Marketplace’s 200 shoppes and be amazed by authentic artisan demonstrations too! Joining Scarborough’s Artisan Marketplace for a limited time are guest artisans A Faire Journey Children’s Clothing, Enchanted Blossom Designs, Endangered Arts, Gitane’s Treasures, Morbid Hookers, and Saorsa Studios. Don’t miss your last chance to see the amazing demonstrations and incredible creations from Andres & Chapman glassblowers and the glass lampwork by Glass Dragon artisan Milon Townsend as well.
Visitors 21 & older can get a taste of the custom blended mead from North Texas’ Breaking Brew Meadery and the new mead from Nidhoggr Mead Co. along with other adult beverages at the (17) pubs and taverns. Those with discerning pallets can partake in a one-hour beer or wine tasting event. These events take place two times each Festival day and each weekend has a different theme and variety. This weekend’s themes are Flynn’s Favorite Wines and Seamus Suggests Beers. The seating at the tasting events is limited and they regularly sell out, so visitors are encouraged to purchase their tasting tickets in advance (and at a discount) at www.SRFestival.com. Tasting tickets are $40 each at the events in addition to Festival admission.
Come Step Back in Time for the Time of your Life at Scarborough Renaissance Festival®(Scarborough Faire®) this Saturday, Sunday, and Memorial Day Monday, May 24, 25 & 26 for the final weekend of the 2025 season!
Some food & drink locations, all of the pubs, and the souvenir shoppes only accept Credit, debit, Apple Pay, and other forms of digital payment. Cash is still accepted at many of the artisan shoppes and some food locations as well. Additional attractions, games, and rides remain cash only. ATMs and reverse ATMs are conveniently located throughout the Festival for your convenience.
Single day tickets are $38 at the gate for Adults (13+) and $18 for Kids (5-12). Kids 4 & under are always Free. Single day discount tickets are available at North Texas Tom Thumb & Albertsons stores and advance date-specific discount tickets are available at www.SRFestival.com.
Located in Waxahachie, Texas, Scarborough Renaissance Festival® (Scarborough Faire®) is just 30 minutes south of downtown Dallas, off I-35E and one hour north of Waco.
Scarborough Renaissance
Festival® (Scarborough Faire®) is sponsored by Dr Pepper, Tom Thumb &
Albertsons, and Whataburger.
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