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The York Waits

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

The York Waits

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.