Hello taborers

Here is the information about this year’s Pipe and Tabor Festival.

As you will see it will only be a one-day event. I usually do the festival
organisation in October, but a family bereavement took me out of the loop
for a while and we considered cancelling the festival this year. However,
such was the demand to have an event of some kind, that we decided to
continue with a smaller ‘Taborers Gathering this year.

We have exciting international artists lining up for the full-blown
festival in 2006. In the meantime hope you can come this year, and I look
forward to catching up with everyone again.

Steve Rowley
Festival Director

p.s. please forward this information to other taborers and anyone you think
may be interested.

2005 PIPE AND TABOR FESTIVAL

SATURDAY 23rd JULY
Stroud Subscription Rooms, George St, Stroud, Glos. GL5 1AE

PROGRAMME

Morning
9.30 Registration
10.30 Big Dub Workshop
11.00 Big Dub 1 - Forecourt
11.15 11.40 Morris - Forecourt
11.30 12.30 Beginners’ Workshop
11.40 Taborers - Forecourt
12.00 Morris - Forecourt
12.30 Procession
1.00 Big Dub 2 followed by lunch

Afternoon
2.00 Workshop - playing for Morris
3.00 Workshop - Early music / Ensemble
4.00 Big Dub 3
5.00 End of Afternoon Activities

Evening
7.30 till late Dub Around Taborers’ Session (Pitchcombe Village Hall)

Tickets on the door: Festival ticket £12, individual workshops £7

The Pipe and Tabor Festival is intended to be a participation event for
Taborers and players of all single-handed pipe and drum. We also welcome
players of other minority mediaeval and folk instruments such as
hurdy-gurdy or bagpipes. Musicians are encouraged to dress in costume
appropriate to their repertoire. All musicians are welcome to perform in
the procession and Big Dub events, plus there are many opportunities for
performing on the Forecourt and in the streets of Stroud.

Tabor Pipes will be on sale for anyone wishing to learn the instrument £5
including fingering chart.

Accommodation
Stroud Tourist Information Office can arrange bookings with excellent B&Bs
and local hotels.
Useful sites:
www.stroudtown.com or www.visitthecotswolds.org.uk

All Other Enquiries
Pipe and Tabor Festival Director,
Tanronen, Lurks Lane,
Pitchcombe,
Stroud GL6 6LL
Tel 01453 763181
Email: ipatf@...
Website: www.pipeandtabor.org

This Festival is organised by Glos Folk and Gloucestershire Morris Men and
is supported by Stroud District Council and Stroud Town Council