The Canterbury Waits
Early Music Group
Welcome to the Canterbury Waits new web page. Thank you to David Shaw for designing and hosting the page for several years.
- Shawms, cornett, sackbut and curtal provide the historical centrepiece of a four-piece shawm band specialising in loud ceremonial and dance music from the time of the Plantagenets to the Tudors and Stuarts.
- Whole consorts of crumhorns, kortholts, flutes, recorders and great recorders provide softer sounds more typical of indoor music. These are supplemented as appropriate by bass viol, rebec, psaltery, bagpipes, tabors, nakkers, and a variety of other medieval and renaissance instruments.
- The Canterbury Waits can provide music of the right period mood for fairs, medieval banquets, and plays, in costume if required. Lectures, demonstrations and concerts always include explanations and readings both amusing and enlightening.
- Since their foundation in 1970, the Canterbury Waits have played for BBC Schools and local radio, for a commercial video (A Blow-by-blow Account of Renaissance Sword-fighting), for many Kentish dramatic societies and music and historical societies in the Home Counties.
Click the links to hear playing by the Canterbury Waits on:
Crumhorns- L'arboscello Ballo Furlano
Shawms - Baxella un Tratto
Please note these MP3 files may be slow to load. They will open in your standard media player.
Performances
Fee: by negotiation, depending on time and distance.
Contact: Ursula Fuller, 75 Beaconsfield Road, Canterbury CT2 7LG
or Email Ursula Fuller
For other early music activities in the South of England, see the Web site of the Southern Early Music Forum http://www.semf.org.uk
For general information about Waits bands and links to other groups, see http://waits.org.uk
Copyright © 1998--2008, The Canterbury Waits.
This page was created by David Shaw and modified by Carl Willetts.
This page was last modified on 23-12-09