Friday 20th September 2025

2 – 5:50 pm Symposium (venue in Peterborough to be determined)

Friday 20th September 2024

2 – 5:50 pm Symposium in Ed Shed downstairs, the Folk in Gloucester ( a wonderful Tudor building near the Cathedral).

“Anniversaries and Recollections”: 2024 is the 100th Anniversary of Cecil Sharp’s death and of the Travelling Morrice, — other anniversaries too, and we can revel in various recollections of pipe and tabor.

Juanma Sanchez – Music of shepherds in Extremadura

Juanma has roamed extensively in the vast wildlands of Extremadura, searching in old shepherds’ huts for signs of past music making. Instruments were frequently handmade from straw, nuts, acorn cups, etc., as well as deploying cooking utensils. Juanma will describe and demonstrate various of these instruments.

Mary-Jo Searle — Fossil tabor rhythms

Did Fieldtown fiddlers preserve tabor rhythms by incorporating them into the melody?

Andy Richards (in person) & Oliver Simons (via Youtube)
The Bucknell Morris Double Caper – why not try it as collected to double the enjoyment? Bucknell is famous for the earliest photograph of a Cotswold Morris team, complete with pipe and tabor player Joe Powell. In 1924, the Travelling Morrice began dancing and collecting in the Cotswolds, including interviewing Joe Powell and other Bucknell morris members. In 2024, two members of the Travelling Morrice repeat the call of Russell Wortley – why not try the double caper as collected and published by Cecil Sharp?

Bill Tuck — Parallel Lives: Cecil Sharp, Arnold Dolmetsch and their respective roles in the first pipe and tabor revival

Around the turn of the 19^th century both Sharp and Dolmetsch felt a strong need to explore the possibility of reviving the long dead pipe & tabor. Their motivation, however, came from two quite different sources: Sharp wished to revive the ‘authentic’ English Morris dance, while for Dolmetsch it was the need to rediscover the original music accompanying Shakespeare’s plays.

Gillian Guest — A Brief update on East Midlands iconography

Mark Perkins — The Lyrical Pipe and Tabor emerges

The lyrical pipe and tabor has charmed through the ages with its origins and sounds. Only now is its true nature beginning to emerge.

To be followed by the AGM

Organized by Bill Tuck

2021: The Colourful World of the Taborer

Friday 10th Sept 2:00 pm (UK time UTC + 1)

Streamed live on interactive YouTube on The Taborers Society Channel

If you would like to participate on Zoom click here to email admin

Bill Tuck

“The Cronaca del Ferraiolo: An illustrated manuscript from 15thC Naples, showing many representations of pipe & tabor in different contexts”

Lola Olga Teale

“Dressing up to play the part: My life as a re-enactor playing the pipe & tabor for living history events”

Andy Richards

“Something exotic: The colourful costumes of Peruvian taborers in the late 18th century”

William Summers

“Playing on the march: Terminology, instrumental groupings, fashions in music and the practicalities of playing while walking”

Frances Tucker

“Playing in bands: Pictures from the Taborers Compendium showing historic musical groupings with pipe and tabor and pipe and string drum, plus modern groups mostly from Europe”

2020: From an Old to a New World

Friday 18th Sept 2:00 pm (UK time UTC + 1)

Streamed live on Interactive YouTube

If you would like to participate on Zoom click here to email admin

2.00	Stephen Rowley	Playing for Cotswold Morris (whatever did the old dead guys do for us?) – A look at the way in which Kentworthy Schofield and Russell Wortley were influenced by the playing of source musicians.
2.50	Gwilym Davies	An Unknown Morris Tune?
		Interval
3.30	Andy Richards	Early Jamestown Taboring – Merriment and Battling from an Old to a New World
4.00	Bill Tuck	From the Mayflower to the Maypole of Merry-Mount: Puritan and Pilgrim attitudes toward traditional customs in the early 17th C
4.30	Angel Vallverdu	The use of flabiol in the Giants of the city of Barcelona and its role in supporting tradition. Does power matter?