The City Waites
The English Tradition - 400 Years of Music & Song [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] The City Waites are the specialists in English traditional music. This album presents music from Medieval times to Queen Victoria played on authentic period instruments such as hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord, lute, fiddle, rebec, bass viol, cittern, etc. |
ANONYMOUS / THOMAS JORDAN & OTHERS
The English Stage Jig: Musical comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries for the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men and the Ignorant The City Waites / Lucie Skeaping (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2009 ] "These performers are well-renowned for championing the popular music of earlier centuries… the singing and instrumental performances are as genially accomplished as ever with The Waites." BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 **** |
TRADITIONAL
Bawdy Ballads of Old England -17th Century Songs & Dances The City Waites [ Alto / CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] "..lively entertainments..full marks to the City Waites.. swinging dialect style..taste of the broadside ballad style..good fun, but not very clean!" - Gramophone |
The City Waites
Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2005 ] "These songs are great fun, and all the performers seem to thoroughly enjoy themselves, with energetic and vivacious renditions. Interesting and informative notes from Lucy Skeaping about the history, use, popularity and performance (and so on) of... |
HOW THE WORLD WAGS
How the world wags: Social Music for the 17th Century Englishman The City Waites (with Pethick Edwards, reader) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] 'Rollicking good fun' (The Cornish Guardian) |
City Waites/Grant/Wootton/Thom
How The World Wags [ Helios / CD ] |
ANONYMOUS
Lusty Broadside Ballads & Playford Dances from 17th Century England City Waites, Lucie Skeaping [ Alto / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] The City Waites are gifted musicians who competently perform on a myriad of authentic 17th century instruments. This provides a wide variety of timbre and thus prevents monotony to help us enjoy these lively songs that might once have reflected the... |