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Waits Performers Early Music Styles


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- Information on Waits or Waites, medieval, Tudor and Renaissance Town Bands of UK and Europe.


  • - The Oxford Waits take their name from a real-life band of city musicians, known as 'waits,' who flourished in Oxford during the 17th century
  • - Official town musicians (1530-1834), re-established in 1983
  • - Five-piece shawm band specialising in loud ceremonial and dance music from the time of the Plantagenets to the Tudors and Stuarts
  • - 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.
  • - Medieval, Tudor & Renaissance style Town Band of Waits or Waites


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