Above: Our lovely, lively hosts, Miles and Lotte
The Consort was formed in 2001 by a handful of regulars who, inspired by the long tradition of carol singing in pubs in parts of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Cornwall, decided to plunder words and tunes from books and recordings and establish our own Stroud tradition.
By learning words from one source and singing them to tunes gleaned from another source, the PACC managed, inadvertently, to give birth to its own subtly hybrid tradition - a technique famously exploited by the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue team.