Texas Toot, Inc

03/17/2025

Summer Texas Toot 2025 is only 2 months away! Registration has opened - https://toot.org/nwp/summer-toot-2025-registration/ - and you can read all the details on the same website. Class selections will be available late April.

Y'all come join us! We have a good time 😄, learn a lot 🤓, and get to play with our friends!

04/18/2023

Voices & viols, and loud band -- two of the many fun sessions at 2022 Summer Toot at Schreiner University, Kerrville TX. Summer Toot 2023 registration is open at https://toot.org/SummerToot/2023/register.html
Join us!

04/10/2023

If you hurry, you can still get $50 off on tuition registering for the Summer Texas Toot -- today is the last day for Early Bird registration! The dates are May 28 - June 3. Go to https://toot.org/SummerToot/2023/register.html now!

The registration link below will open a new window and take you to a page outside the Toot Website, with a Web-based registration form. When you are finished, you should see a "Thank you" screen.

10/17/2022

There's one week (7 days!) left to register for the Fall Toot and get the Early Bird tuition fee. This saves you $25 per person. The Fall Toot dates are Nov 18-20, 2022; Early Bird expires after October 24.

Go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Fall22_reg_BBTFN9M to register. Visit http://toot.org/FallToot/2022 to get all the details about housing, meals, fees and discounts, and our fabulous faculty.

We hope you will join us for the 2022 Fall Toot, celebrating our 47th year! As usual, we have searched the world to provide you with an excellent lineup of all-star faculty!

10/01/2022

Exciting news! Registration for the Fall Texas Toot (the first one since 2019) is now open!! See all the details, including our stellar faculty, at http://toot.org/FallToot/2022/index.html

Don't miss out on a weekend in beautiful East Texas with early music, friends old and new, and all the great snacks you can eat😅. Register now!

We hope you will join us for the 2022 Fall Toot, celebrating our 47th year! As usual, we have searched the world to provide you with an excellent lineup of all-star faculty!

07/09/2022

For a taste of one of the Toot specialties -- gemshorns! -- check out this video of the final piece we played in the Siesta class on Thursday. Thanks to Susan Poelchau for the video!

03/19/2022

The Summer Toot is trending popular! Register now at the website http://toot.org/SummerToot/2022/index.html, where all the details about housing, meals, and faculty are laid out for you to see. Early bird registration (a $55 savings) ends April 20!

COVID protocols observed, vaccination required for all.

The Summer Texas Toot offers a one-week program of classes at all levels, focusing on Renaissance and Baroque music, but also ranging from Medieval to Sephardic to 21st century. Expert instructors in recorder, viol, lute, harp, continuo, and voice will teach technique classes, coach one-on-a-part gr...

03/08/2022

Summer Toot 2022 registration (http://toot.org/SummerToot/2022/register.html) is open! May 29 - Jun 4, 2022
Featured faculty: Deborah Booth, Jennifer Carpenter,
Mary Springfels, Al Cofrin, and Therese Honey

We are especially excited to introduce our new home for the Summer Toot: the campus of 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) has a brand-new trailhead right at the university, with a newly completed beer garden! For the non-walkers among us, freely available parking lots around the campus make it easier to move from housing to dining to classrooms.
More information on the 2022 Summer Toot is here: http://toot.org/SummerToot/2022/index.html

The registration link below will open a new window and take you to a page outside the Toot Website, with a Web-based registration form. When you are finished, you should see a "Thank you" screen.

12/20/2021

NewsFlash! Summer Toot 2022 will happen, and in person!

May 29 - June 4, 2022
Schreiner University, Kerrville, Texas

We are SOOOO excited to be planning the first in-person Summer Toot in 3 years! The last one was in 2019, and we have sorely missed seeing all of our Toot friends during that time. Zoom is wonderful, and we are grateful to Amherst Early Music for hosting online T***s — but to be in person again!!

We will be forging ahead with our faculty selection and other preparations in the next couple of months. In the meantime, mark your calendars and please join us for the 2022 Summer Texas Toot ... "more than recorders"!

The dates again: May 29 - June 4, 2022!

08/01/2021

Texas Toot and Amherst Early Music staff have been hard at work to prepare the classes and registration for this year's Summer Toot. And now, you can see all the classes offered and choose which ones to register for, on the Summer Toot web page at AEM, https://www.amherstearlymusic.org/summer_toot.

Our introductory meet-and-greet session is Friday evening, Aug 13. Classes are offered on Saturday and Sunday, Aug 14-15. AEM has now made it so that you can sign up for both classes during a period, because they are recording every class session! The recordings will be available for 7 days after the class, for those who registered.
I hope you're having a great summer, and hope to see you at the Toot!

August 14 & 15, 2021 Registration Now Open! Join AEM ONLINE for the Texas Summer Toot! Online class sessions are offered on Saturday and Sunday, August 14-15, with a social meet-and-greet session on Friday evening Aug 13! All classes use the Zoom meeting app, or your web browser. Directed by: Danny....

07/06/2021

The 2021 Summer Texas Toot will be presented online Aug 13-15, once again thanks to the gracious support of Amherst Early Music (AEM)! It will be structured very much like the Fall 2020 Toot, with a Friday meet-and-greet followed by Saturday and Sunday classes. The dates are August 13-15, 2021.

Please visit the AEM website, https://www.amherstearlymusic.org/, for more information about all their classes and workshops. Summer Toot dates, classes and registration will be posted there as it becomes available!

AEM ONLINE WEEKEND CLASSES While recognizing that virtual learning cannot replace the in-person experience, we’ve launched “AEM Online” – four classes each weekend taught by different faculty members. Our goal is to feature as many faculty members as possible while also giving students a cha...