The York Waits
Deborah Catterall and Gareth Glyn Roberts singers, narration
Tim Bayley, William Marshall, Lizzie Gutteridge, Susan Marshall, Anna Marshall shawms, sackbuts, recorders, curtal, harp, violin, guitar, bagpipes, hurdy gurdy
Fortune My Foe
The early 1600s might have been a period of pestilence and plotting, but they were also a golden age of music and drama. Using the wind and stringed instruments of the age and drawing on historical sources, long-established early music group The York Waits (who are based in the home city of Guy Fawkes) provide a soundtrack and narrative to the origins and aftermath of the notorious Gunpowder Plot of 1605. There are songs and dance tunes of Elizabethan and Jacobean England – many of which became popular throughout Europe – and Macbeth’s witches make an appearance. Instruments include sackbuts, shawms, harp, recorders, curtal, the early forms of violin and guitar, plus bagpipes and hurdy gurdy.
The finer details…
‘Behind the Music’ FREE pre-concert talk: 6.45pm
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Front Nave: £28 full price | £3 child/student
Middle Nave: £18 full price | £9 under-35s | £3 child/student
Sides: £13 full price | £3 child/student
The York Waits
Tim Bayley, Lizzie Gutteridge, Anna Marshall
Susan Marshall and William Marshall
with Deborah Catterall singer
The Waits’ Wassail
Firm favourites in Warwick, The York Waits’ return is eagerly awaited!
The Waits celebrate the Festive Season with songs, carols and dances from across medieval and renaissance England and Europe, performed on loud and quiet wind consorts, bowed and plucked strings, and the rustic bagpipes and vielle.
The programme includes many well known favourites such as In dulci jubilo, Ther is no Rose, Noel Nouvelet, Quem Pastores, Ninna, nanna Dormi Figlio and The Waits’ Wassail.
The “grete noyse” of shawms and sackbuts will herald a sequence of atmospheric music that the Waits and Deborah Catterall have developed over many years of collaboration
Tickets include mulled wine and mince pies
Deborah Catterall singer with
Tim Bayley, Lizzie Gutteridge, Anna Marshall,
Susan Marshall and William Marshall
Music fit for a Kingmaker
Music from the time of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471). The York Waits bring a noyse of shawms, along with hurdy gurdy, rebec, rommelpot, and sackbut, plus fiddles, flute, harp, percussion and much more.
Lunchtime lecture at 1pm in St Mary’s Church about the medieval instruments in the windows at the Beauchamp Chapel – in association with Warwick Words History Festival – Tickets: £2 available from St Mary’s Gift Shop or on the doors.