Five-piece shawm band specialising in loud ceremonial and dance music from the time of the Plantagenets to the Tudors and Stuarts

Medieval, Tudor & Renaissance style Town Band of Waits or Waites

The Oxford Waits take their name from a real-life band of city musicians, known as 'waits,' who flourished in Oxford during the 17th century

Official town musicians (1530-1834), re-established in 1983

Information on Waits or Waites, medieval, Tudor and Renaissance Town Bands of UK and Europe.

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.