There will be music and a variety of other entertainments at the third annual Lake Renaissance Festival on Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29, 2011, in Lower Lake, Calif. Courtesy photo.

LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Visit 16th Century Tuscany right here in Lake County, a simpler time when people made their own entertainment, a time of handmade tools and crafts, great food and drink, a time when people played games for fun, and sang and danced.

All this and more will take place in the town of Porto del Mare on the Mediterranean coast in the re-created Tuscan Village.

There’s fun for the whole family at the Tuscan Village in Lower Lake on Memorial Weekend at the third annual Lake Renaissance Festival on Main Street, next to the post office, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29.

The days will be filled with festivities, great entertainment, and great food and drink! Visit the marketplace for clothes, jewelry, crafts and goods to buy. There will be music for the soul, both the wayward and the not-so-wayward.

There also will be dancers to see, sword fighting, games to play, hilarity and mischief.

Where is the youthful Scot noble? Married just a year ago and now left alone and lonely for her new husband, his sweet bride is in tears, and turns to her family for comfort.

Finding it difficult to stay faithful, the young Scot of the Clan Fraser abandoned his fair young bride, Isabella de Medici, and to escape the wrath of her father, Cosimo I, Duke of Florence, has fled Tuscany for his home back in the Highlands. Will he be brought back to Tuscany?

Come to the Italian festival and see whether he‘s been captured and brought back to Porto del Mare by those privateers, the Brotherhood of the Black Flag.

The public is invited to the fun and interesting workshops, which are free of charge, to learn about the history of the area, the age being portrayed and to choose a character, learn how to dress, walk and talk like the people of 400 years past, or to take another one of the many workshops which are planned.

To learn more about the workshops, contact Education Director Ann White at 707-278-0312.

To find out about participating in the festival contact Lisa Brazeau at 707-295-2925 or visit the Lake Renaissance Festival Web site at www.lakerenfest.com.

Tickets are $7, Children 10 and under are free, and discount tickets are available at various businesses throughout the Clearlake area.