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, Winterbourne Mediaeval Barn and the York Mystery Plays.
Performances planned for 2026 include.
***Jan 17 Wassail at The Folk of Gloucester ***Jan 30 Wassail at Hartpury Orchard Centre ***Mar 22 Tretower Court ***Apr 4th Stokesay Castle ***Apr 5th Easter at Brockhampton Manor ***Apr 19th Gloucester History Festival at Blackfriars ***Apr 25th Yate Heritage Centre ***May 17th Tretower Court ***May 31st Arbor Day at Aston-on-Clun ***Jun 13th St Nicholas Gloucester ***Jun 21st International Make Music Day ***Jul 18th Gloucester Archaeology Festival
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
apples
Wassail !! An annual event at The Folk of Gloucester
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
pirates
Gloucester pirate festival in The Fountain Inn
Civic Trust Golden Jubilee
Mitcheldean
Mitcheldean Xmas Fair - with a cool backing band !!
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