Directory of Waits Resources

Waits were civic musicians, found in most British towns from the 16th century until their abolition in 1835.

Subcategories

Colchester Waits

http://www.wyldesnoyse.co.uk/colchester/
Revival of the City's civic musicians of medieval and Renaissance times, playing shawms, sackbuts and other loud wind instruments.
Kings Lynn Waites

http://www.wyldesnoyse.co.uk/kingslynn/
Medieval, Tudor and Renaissance style Town Band of Waits or Waites.
Lincoln Waites

http://www.lincolnwaites.org.uk/
The history of Lincoln's civic band from medieval times to the 19th century.
The Oxford Waits

http://www.bejo.co.uk/bejo/html/artWaits.htm
Take their name from a real-life band of city musicians who flourished during the 17th century.
The Waits Website

http://www.townwaits.org.uk/
An academic site designed to accumulate and disseminate information on the history of Waits and their European equivalents.
The York Waits

http://www.theyorkwaits.org.uk/
A 16th century, living history band playing Period European street music, popular dance, and ballad tunes, using a noyse of shawms, ancestors of the oboe-bassoon family, and characteristic instruments of waits before 1600.

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