{"id":289791,"date":"2026-09-19T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289791\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:10:08","slug":"pennsylvania-renaissance-faire-honors-former-performer-through-song-sharing-of-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289791\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire honors former performer through song, sharing of memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is honoring a former performer on Saturday who passed in early August from heart complications while on a cruise in Alaska.<\/p>\n

Shannon Jones, also known as former performer Lady Amanda Chase and Shannon Sunflowers, took yearly trips to the Renaissance Fair since she was only five years old, according to Jones\u2019 online journal.<\/a><\/p>\n

Her mother, Tamara Sweitzer, said on Facebook <\/a>that Jones was battling four incurable diseases that damaged her lungs and that \u201cshe passed because her heart gave out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her friends and family will share their favorite memories, and the ladies of Chaste Treasure will honor her by performing in her honor.<\/p>\n

In a post on Facebook<\/a>, Chaste Treasure said, \u201cWe\u2019ve grown so much since Lady Amanda first sang with us at NJRF. And this weekend, we hope you will live like Shannon as a Battle Raven that embraces all that life has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201ctime of remembrance\u201d will be held at 2 p.m. at Sir Jacobs Ladder, where people are invited to sing and share their memories of Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is honoring a former performer on Saturday who passed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-289791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}