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

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We hope 2021 brings the first Schreiner University Texas Toot.

Stay safe,
David Podeschi -- President, Toot Board

Below is what we had planned for this year...

Nina Stern, Wendy Gillespie,
Frances Blaker, and Mary Springfels

Please join us for the 2020 Summer Texas Toot ... "more than recorders"! We are very excited about our new home for the Summer Toot: Schreiner University, in Kerrville, Texas! Nestled in the beauty of the Texas Hill Country, Schreiner's campus provides all the classrooms, concert spaces, housing, and meals that you expect as part of the Toot experience. But there is much more!

Outdoor recreation opportunities abound, in this small city right on the Guadalupe River. For walkers, the 5-mile public River Trail (https://www.kerrvilletx.gov/1341/River-Trail) will have a brand-new trailhead right at the university, with a beer garden planned for completion in April 2020! For the non-walkers among us, freely available parking lots around the campus make it easier to move from housing to dining to classrooms.

As always, we'll have outstanding faculty members teaching recorder, viol, lute, harp, and other instruments, as well as voice and ensembles.

Please make plans now to join us for the 2019 Fall Toot. For over forty years, we've been holding workshops and providing early music fun and learning for amateurs and aficionados alike! The Toot will be held once again at Lakeview Methodist Conference Center near Palestine, Texas. As always, it's the weekend before Thanksgiving — Nov 22 - 24, 2019.

Our popular 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% tuition discount. Share the fun, and save! There will be an Early Bird discount on tuition, too, if you register by October 25, so be sure to get your registration and deposit in as soon as possible.

Full faculty bios, as well as pricing information and other details, can be seen by clicking on the Fall Toot link on the left.

Music to be prepared: Motets for the Church Year by Jacob Handl (Jacobus Gallus) For more complete details about this year's workshop, see the brochure — or click on the Polyphony Weekend link in the left-hand menu. Workshop leader: Dr. William P. Mahrt, of Stanford University (California). If you have questions about the Polyphony Weekend, please e-mail us: polyphony@toot.org

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The Texas Toot is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, organized "to promote the preservation and performance of early music by amateur musicians with voice and reproductions of period instruments". Donations to the Texas Toot are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, and you will receive a receipt for tax purposes.