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The York Waits
Goday My Lord Sir Christemas
Part of the York Early Music Christmas Festival 2017
Add to my Calendar 12-12-2017 19:30 12-12-2017 21:30 36 The York Waits A Celebration of English medieval and Tudor music for the Festive Season Join The Waits to explore the wonderfully varied range of Advent and Christmas music from the 15th to the early 16th centuries. The noyse of shawms and sackbuts, bagpipes and hurdy gurdy herald the arrival of Yule, while fiddles, harp, gittern and low recorders accompany some familiar and other less well known songs and carols that demonstrate how our ancestors greeted winter and the story of the Nativity. “Truly the Waits are among York’s greatest treasures” York Press National Centre for Early Music, York DD/MM/YYYYDetails
National Centre for Early Music
St Margaret's Church
Walmgate
York
YO1 9TL
England
Programme
Various – Advent and Christmas music from the 15th to the early 16th centuries
Performers
Deborah Catterall – voice
The York Waits
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Programme Note
A Celebration of English medieval and Tudor music for the Festive Season
Join The Waits to explore the wonderfully varied range of Advent and Christmas music from the 15th to the early 16th centuries. The noyse of shawms and sackbuts, bagpipes and hurdy gurdy herald the arrival of Yule, while fiddles, harp, gittern and low recorders accompany some familiar and other less well known songs and carols that demonstrate how our ancestors greeted winter and the story of the Nativity.
“Truly the Waits are among York’s greatest treasures” York Press
