Bygonz
Music and entertainment presented by Rob and Gillian Guest. Performances may include pipe and tabor. lyre, symphonie, hurdy gurdy, english bagpipes, hobby horse, jig doll or mediaeval percussion. The music ranges from early mediaeval to that collected by the Edwardians. For further information contact robandgillian@gmail.com or to see more about Gillian's taboring see http://gillianguest.blogspot.co.uk/
Bygonz

playing at Tretower Court
performances
Bygonz has performed at Baddesley Clinton Manor, Banbury Hobby Horse Festival, various wassails, Berkeley Castle Tudor Festival, Bignor weeds & wildflowers festival, Three Towers Festival, Brockhampton Manor, Charlecote Park, Dovers Cotswold Olimpick Games, Droitwich Royal Charter Day, Galouvielle Festival in Paris, Malvern Priory, Gloucester and St.David's Cathedrals, Ely Eel Day, Gloucester Tall Ships Festival, Hailes Abbey, Llanthony Secunda Priory, Snowshill Manor, St.Annes Well Mediaeval Pageant, Stokesay Castle, Tretower Court, The Three Choirs Festival fringe and York Mystery Plays.
Performances planned for 2025 include.
***Jan 3 – Brockhampton Tudor Manor ***Jan 18 – Wassail at Folk of Gloucester ***Jan 31 – Wassail at Hartpury Orchard Centre ***Mar 23 - Stokesay Castle ***Apr 5 - Mitchel Troy VH 50 ***Apr 12 – Mediaeval Banquet at St Briavels Castle ***Apr 18 – Brockhampton Tudor Manor ***Apr 19 – Tudor Day at Folk of Gloucester ***Apr 20 – Tretower Court ***Apr 27 - Winterbourne Barn Spring Open Day ***May 11 - Stokesay Castle ***May 25 - Arbor Day at Aston-on-Clun ***Jun 8 - Winterbourne Barn Mediaeval Day *** Jun 14 – Folk in the Orchard ***Jun 21 International Make Music Day
anglo
Anglo-saxon
Aethelflaed
Mediaeval
Winterbourne Mediaeval Barn

Winterbourne Mediaeval Barn - at the Barn's mediaeval day
St Richard's Festival, Droitwich

celebrating St Richard's miracle in making Droitwich's brine springs flow again in 1249
Gloucester cathedral

Gloucester cathedral - testing the acoustics in the cloisters (photo Chris Denham)
Frampton

procession as part of the 700th anniversary of the dedication of Frampton church
Tudor
Heritage Open Days
During Heritage Open Days in 2014 we were photobombed!
lampreys
Playing at the ancient ceremony where the City of Gloucester presents a lamprey pie to a newly crowned monarch (Charles III 2023)
Fairford

emulating the stained glass window at Fairford with English bagpipes and mediaeval triangle
We love making music

International Make Music Day with Landlord and Landlady, Peter and Chris at the Yew Tree, Clifford's Mesne
Polifonie
civic duties
as guard and crier at the Sheriff's Riding in York
Civil war and Stuart era
Glos Day
The Gloucester Day parade marks the end of the siege of Gloucester in 1643
GLos Day

Gloucester Day 2020. photo courtesy of Mike Smith Photography
Ross-on-Wye

celbrating John Kyrle's 380th birthday in his knot garden in Ross-on-Wye
3 choirs

Performing on the community bandstand at the three choirs festival in Gloucester
More recent times
Bignor weeds and wildflower festival
Bignor Weeds and Wildflower Festival - Yattleton was a naughty horse !!
Yattleton dances to The Horse's Bransle

Yattleton cavorts at Eric Freeman's Byford's Farm Harvest Home
Dave
Yattleton with the late and great Dave Blick on the occasion he was presented with the EFDSS Gold Medal for services to folk
Arbucies, Catalunya
Arbor Day
Arbor Day tree dressing and blessing at Aston-on- Clun. For details of the ceremony https://myblog.moonbrookcottagehandspun.co.uk/2022/05/31/arbor-day-tree-dressing-at-aston-on-clun-in-the-shropshire-marches/
lunacy
at the Lughnasadh Folk Festival
upton
with Mark and Cathy from Canadian Orange Peel Morris at Upton Folk Festival
quintet
dovers

Dovers Cotteswold Olimpick Games on Oak Apple Day 2015
cathedral

High Sheriff's concert in Gloucester cathedral
tall ships

at Gloucester Tall Ships Festival
Civic Trust Golden Jubilee
Mitcheldean

Mitcheldean Xmas Fair - with a cool backing band !!
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