Washing Well Wenches bring top performances in female comedy teams

Carol Forsloff-----

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The Oregon Renaissance Festival is one of the magic moments folks can have in the dregs of summer that finalize the season with the best, and one of those bests is the Washing Well Women, a comedic group of talented women who are a must-see event at any place they are featured.

This group travels to festivals and offers performances that keep audiences laughing and enchanted with the energetic women who interact with the crowd with verve and funny lines.

The usual audience participation brings out even more of the humor that is conjured up instantly or planned. It's hard to tell how much is spontaneous unless you are one in the crowd who is called, as Del Forsloff was at the Oregon Renaissance Festival, as he got in the groove with the girls and embraced the event with the same good humor that others did on a mid-September fair in Hillsboro, an annual event that brings crowds to the little town bordering Portland, Oregon.

The story is best told in videos and pictures that are here for all to enjoy, the Washing Well Wenches in one of their best routines along with clips that show the fun that await folks fortunate enough to be in an area where these festivals are found, where they are “Good, Clean Fun”

And as the festival is winding down in Oregon, these funny women, The Washing Well Wenches, have a schedule of where they are performing on their website here.

Oregon Renaissance Festival in Hillsboro: Here's the story in picturesand more

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Carol Forsloff----Ever want to travel back in time to the time of the Renaissance, when poetry and history fused, and people lived simpler lives in Merry Old England and other places in Europe, ushering in the era of thought and customs that eventually traveled to the New World? Well, then visit the Oregon Renaissance Festival of Hillsboro, Oregon.

That travel back in time occurs annually in a wide open area between the suburbs of Portland and the small town of Hillsboro that offers much to do, especially in summer, with festivals and fairs. The Oregon Renaissance Festival has been enchanting visitors for over 50 years.

The entire Festival is based upon the concepts of the Renaissance, and every vendor and performer throughout the schedule speak in the old English of yore. The sheriff and the Queen are the key figures around which much of the activity develops. There are jousting events, knife throws, cannon demonstrations, belly dancing and various other acts for children and adults that are period-related to the Renaissance.

The story is best told in pictures, this month old narrative in festival form with all the colors and wonders of long ago, spread out for the visitor who wanders into the area in Oregon, or right here for a virtual experience of what life was like in all its various forms hundreds of years ago, made new by the program folk who make magic every year on the Hillsboro Fairgrounds.