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.

We hope you will join us for the 2008 Summer Toot, which is proud to bring Alison Melville and Frances Blaker (recorder), Mary Springfels (viol), and Dan Stillman (reeds, brass -- louds) to Texas! Plan on joining us, at Texas Woman's University in Denton for the first time, for an unforgettable workshop experience.

Full information, registration forms, and class selection for the 2008 Summer Toot are now available; just click on the Summer Toot link on the left.

The 2007 Fall Toot is now history, and it was a lot of fun! You can read all about it by clicking on the Fall Toot link on the left. In the meantime, reserve the weekend before Thanksgiving for the 2008 Fall Toot — plan to join us for a great, affordable early music workshop experience!

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 11 at St. Luke's Catholic Church (202 S. MacArthur Blvd, Irving TX).

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