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 offers a one-week program of classes at all levels, focusing on Renaissance and Baroque music, but with offerings for Medieval and 21st century enthusiasts as well. Expert instructors in recorder, viol, early reeds, lute, harp, and voice will tend to young professionals, seasoned amateurs, and eager beginners with equal care. The Toot also sponsors or supports other events, including the Renaissance Polyphony Weekend.

Please make plans now to join us for the 2016 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 18 - 20, 2016.

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 20, 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 (when available, in late August or early September) by clicking on the Fall Toot link on the left.

Music to be prepared: (mass TBD) For more complete details about this year's workshop, 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

June 12-18, 2016

featuring
Cléa Galhano, Therese Honey,
Mary Springfels, and Peter Maund

Please join us for the 2016 Summer Texas Toot ... "more than recorders"! The beautiful campus of Concordia University will once again be our home. And as always, we'll have outstanding faculty members teaching viol, reeds, lute, harp, and other instruments, as well as voice and ensembles.

More information on the 2016 Summer Toot is at your fingertips! just click on the Summer Toot link on the left.


Two ways to support the Texas Toot:

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(2) Donate to the Texas Toot quickly and easily through PayPal! You need not have a PayPal account; they will securely process a payment from your own credit card (look for a Lock symbol, or the URL starting "https" to see that it is secured).

Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, and you will receive a receipt for tax purposes.