The Guilds
Montol is so much more than a beautiful barmy bash.
The performers and the Guilds who do so much to make the day and night so special are … well … special.
Keeping alive traditions that date back hundreds of years, traditions which in turn kept alive the embers of beliefs, hopes and fears from the depths of history, faint echoes which still resonate today. Traditions which have faltered and faded but have never quite left living memory.
Embers which are stirring into fire again.
Each year we lose some but gain new ones.
The oldest surviving guilds are The Cornmarket Revellers and The ‘Gyptians.
Starting or Reviving a Guild?
This short simple guide should help.
The Gathering
On Sunday the 30th November
The Gathering is when we get together to meet and talk and laugh and dance, to make new friendships and patch up old quarrels and to sign the Ancient Montol Ledger.
We look forward to meeting you all –
New guilds and old, musicians, dancers and mummers, new peeps and old hands – so you can sign the Ancient Montol Ledger – a record stretching back into the mists of time (all the way back to 2023 in fact).
Join the the Cornmarket Revellers, the ‘Gyptians, Raffidy Dumitz Band, the Physicians, the Turks, The Peccadilloes, The Scaleyback of Hakey Bay, The Frolicking Fish Folk, The Radical Ramblers, The Coddiwomplers, The Hwymm Hwamm Hyggas, The Hedgerows, The Tatty Mummers and more – registered in The Ledger
If you want to join one of these or, even better, want to form your own shiny new guild then come to The Gathering – where you can be recruited or recruit!
