Texas Toot, Inc.
(formerly known as The Texas Early Music Festival)

Who We Are

The Texas Toot is a Texas-based non-profit devoted to early music education and performance, presenting two workshops each year. The Fall Texas Toot is a short weekend workshop with instruction in recorders, viols, early reeds, harp, lute, voice, and more. The Summer Texas Toot is a one-week program of classes in Renaissance and Baroque music at all levels, for recorders, viols, singers, plucked strings, Renaissance reeds and brass, and harpsichord. The Toot also sponsors or supports other events, including the Renaissance Polyphony Weekend.

Please make plans now to join us for the 2009 Fall Toot, with an excellent lineup of all-star faculty, including some brand-new faces! The Fall Toot will be held once again at Lakeview Methodist Conference Center near Palestine, Texas. As always, it's the weekend before Thanksgiving — Nov 20-22, 2009.

Once again! Bring-a-Friend tuition discount — invite a first-time participant to come to the Fall Toot, and get a 20% discount on your tuition! Or bring back a former Tooter who's been gone 5 or more years, and get a 10% discount. Share the fun, and save! -- so be sure to get your reservations and deposits in as soon as possible.

Full faculty bios, as well as pricing information and other details, can be seen (when available, around September) by clicking on the Fall Toot link on the left.

As usual, the Polyphony Weekend will be held at the University of Dallas in Irving, and led by Dr. William Mahrt of Stanford University. The singer's retreat will conclude with a celebrated Latin Mass the evening of February 22.

If you have questions about the Polyphony Weekend, please e-mail us: polyphony@toot.org

Please join us for the 2009 Summer Toot! We're back in Austin, at the beautiful new campus of Concordia University, and as always, we'll have outstanding faculty members teaching recorder, viol, lute, harp, and other instruments as well as continuo and voice.