Bygonz
Music and entertainment from bygone ages presented by Rob and Gillian Guest. Performances may include pipe and tabor with lyre, symphonie, hurdy gurdy, english bagpipes, hobby horse, jig doll or mediaeval percussion. The music performed ranges from early mediaeval to that collected by the Edwardians. For further information, contact robandgillian@gmail.com For further information about Gillian's taboring, see http://gillianguest.blogspot.co.uk/
performances
Bygonz has performed at Baddesley Clinton Manor, Banbury Hobby Horse Festival, various wassails, Berkeley Castle Tudor Festival, Bignor weeds & wildflowers festival, 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 and The Three Choirs Festival fringe.
Performances planned for 2022 include.
***20 February Stokesay Castle *** 27 February Brockhampton Manor ***20 March Tretower Court ***16 April Tretower Court ***17 April Brockhampton Manor ***30 April Guildford Summerpole ***21 May Brockhampton Orchards Launch ***22 May Stokesay Castle ***27 May Harts Barn ***28 May Tretower Court ***29 May Arbor Day at Aston-on-Clun ***4 June Droitwich Jubilee ***12 June Winterbourne Mediaeval Barn ***19 June York Mystery Plays ***21 June International Make Music Day
Bygonz

playing at Tretower Court
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 and video below from Chris Denham)
Frampton

procession as part of the 700th anniversary of the dedication of Frampton church
Tudor
Heritage Open Days
Heritage Open Days
During Heritage Open Days in 2014 we were photobombed!
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
upton
with Mark and Cathy from Canadian Orange Peel Morris at Upton Folk Festival
quintet

Playing at Dagy's maypole party in New Zealand with our next two generations of musicians
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
Mitcheldean

Mitcheldean Xmas Fair - with a cool backing band !!
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