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
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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 2024 include.
***upcoming events during the first half of the year
***March 31- Brockhampton Tudor Manor ***April 7 Stokesay Castle ***April 21 - Tretower Court ***April 27 - Witchcraft and wonder Festival ***May 4 - Tudor Day at the Folk ***May 11 - EricFest at Redmarley ***May 19 - Brockhampton Tudor Manor ***May 26 - Arbor Day at Aston on Clun ***June 2 - Stokesay Castle ***June 9 - Winterbourne Barn Mediaeval Day ***June 15 - Gloucester Cathedral Quarter event ***June 16 - Tretower Court ***June 21 - International Make Music Day at Hartpury Orchard Centre ***June 22 - Folk in the Orchard *** July 7 - Brockhampton Tudor Manor *** July 19 - Mitcheldean Festival *** July 21 - Tretower Court *** July 29 - Stokesay Castle *** September 7 - Gloucester Day Parade *** September 13-14 Gloucester Heritage Open Days ***September 28 - Caldicot Castle *** October 6 - Winterbourne Barn Orchard Day *** October 19 The Folk of Gloucester Apple Day
anglo
Anglo-saxon
Aethelflaed
Mediaeval
Winterbourne Mediaeval Barn
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Winterbourne Mediaeval Barn - at the Barn's mediaeval day
St Richard's Festival, Droitwich
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celebrating St Richard's miracle in making Droitwich's brine springs flow again in 1249
Gloucester cathedral
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Gloucester cathedral - testing the acoustics in the cloisters (photo and video below from Chris Denham)
Frampton
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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!
lampreys
Playing at the ancient ceremony where the City of Gloucester presents a lamprey pie to a newly crowned monarch (Charles III 2023)
Fairford
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emulating the stained glass window at Fairford with English bagpipes and mediaeval triangle
We love making music
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International Make Music Day with Landlord and Landlady, Peter and Chris at the Yew Tree, Clifford's Mesne
Polifonie
civic duties
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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
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Gloucester Day 2020. photo courtesy of Mike Smith Photography
Ross-on-Wye
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celbrating John Kyrle's 380th birthday in his knot garden in Ross-on-Wye
3 choirs
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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
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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
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Playing at Dagy's maypole party in New Zealand with our next two generations of musicians
dovers
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Dovers Cotteswold Olimpick Games on Oak Apple Day 2015
cathedral
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High Sheriff's concert in Gloucester cathedral
tall ships
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at Gloucester Tall Ships Festival
Civic Trust Golden Jubilee
Mitcheldean
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Mitcheldean Xmas Fair - with a cool backing band !!
mm
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