The City Waites
| Festivals | 1982 |
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The City Waites are a quartet of musicians who take their name from the musicians who were maintained by towns and cities to provide music for municipal occasions. They recreate the vitality, spontaneity, humour and sometimes bawdy aspects of Early Music and perform frequently at the National Theatre.
For Leominster Festival 1982, they bought "a gorgeous gallery of gallant inventions" in the form of popular music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance period to Leominster Junior School.
Programme Biography
THE CITY WAITES. Take their name from the musicians who were maintained by towns and cities to provide music for municipal occasions. The group’s repertoire includes ‘art’ music of the Court and Church, but their main interest is in the songs and dances of the street and countryside. the stage and tavern— the music of the Common man. They recreate the vitality, spontaneity, humour and sometimes bawdy aspects of Early Music, The dry Waites play authentic copies of instruments of the period including lute, cittern, rebecs, recorders and crumhorns. This attractive and highly qualified quartet of young musicians has won acclaim throughout the United Kingdom and on the Continent, Appearing trequently at the National Theatre they had the honour of playing before Her Majesty the Oueen.