The York Waits

The York Waits return to the NCEM to play and sing music from the 1400s to the 1600s that evokes and celebrates winter and the festive season. The repertoire ranges from 15th century carols to 17th century ballads, played on instruments that include shawms and sackbuts – heard on the streets of Elizabethan York during the city’s infamous Yuletide processions – plus recorders, curtal, crumhorns, violins, harp, organ and bagpipes.