s u r f - s i t e . c o m Web Surfing Directory     Top: Arts: Music: Styles: E: Early_Music: Performers: Waits European  (1) Canterbury Waits - Five-piece shawm band specialising in loud ceremonial and dance music from the time of the Plantagenets to the Tudors and Stuarts Colchester Waits - Revival of the City's civic musicians of medieval and Renaissance times, playing shawms, sackbuts and other loud wind instruments. The Doncaster Waites - An early music group who take their name from the bands of musicians who used to be employed by local corporations as town musicians. Kings Lynn Waites - Medieval, Tudor and Renaissance style Town Band of Waits or Waites. The Leeds Waits Home Page - Official town musicians (1530-1834), re-established in 1983 Lincoln Waites - The history of Lincoln's civic band from medieval times to the 19th century. The Oxford Waits - Take their name from a real-life band of city musicians who flourished during the 17th century. The Waits Website - An academic site designed to accumulate and disseminate information on the history of Waits and their European equivalents. The York Waits - A 16th century, living history band playing Period European street music, popular dance, and ballad tunes, using a noyse of shawms, ancestors of the oboe-bassoon family, and characteristic instruments of waits before 1600. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor surf-site.com - Web Surfing Directory is a free service of Bush Enterprises. Copyright ©2000, by James E. Bush.