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, 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 2023 include.
***January 14th Wassail at the Folk ***February 3rd Wassail at the National Perry Pear Centre ***February 11th Reenactors Gathering in Worcester ***19th Folk at the Folk ***March 19th Tretower Court ***April 2nd Stokesay Castle ***April 8th Brockhampton Manor ***April 16th Tretower Court ***April 27th Presentation of the lamprey pie ceremony - Gloucester ***29th Three Towers Festival at Marksbury ***May 8th Coronation celebration at Brockhampton Estate ***May 27th Gloucester Civic Trust Parade ***May 28th Arbor Day at Aston-on-Clun ***June 11th Winterbourne Barn Mediaeval Festival ***July 1st Folk in the Orchard***July 16th Tretower Court ***July 29th Festival of Archaeology, Gloucester ***August 6th Brockhampton Manor ***August 13th Stokesay Castle ***August 18th Mediaeval Bangquet ***August 20th Tretower Court ***August 26th Hereford River Carnival ***August 27th Brockhampton Manor ***Sept 2nd Gloucester Day Parade ***Sept 9th Heritage Open Days in Gloucester ***October 8th Winterbourne Orchard Day ***October 21st Apple Day at The Folk ***October 28th The Gathering art installation, Gloucester ***December 9th Tretower Court ***December 10th Xmas music at Brockhampton Manor
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
lunacy
at the Lughnasadh Folk Festival
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
Civic Trust Golden Jubilee
Mitcheldean

Mitcheldean Xmas Fair - with a cool backing band !!
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