An Evening with the Oxford Waits
8pm Friday 6th November 2009
The production is a fundraising event in aid of the Marcham Moldova Lifeline and its work on behalf of Agape. The Lifeline and the strong support it receives from within the village is well known to regular readers of the MADNews.
The Oxford Waits have performed at festivals, the opening of Oxford Castle, as well as featuring on BBC Radios 3 and 4. They have been described by a recent reviewer as providing “a charming and witty romp through 17th century England, giving an authentic-feeling taste of the music that amused and entertained the ordinary folk of the time”.
The Oxford Waits take their name from a real-life band of city musicians known as “waits” who flourished in Oxford during the tumultuous era of the English Civil War and Restoration. The performers appear in costume and concerts are enlivened by street ballads, dance tunes, airs and rounds as well as by readings from diarists and poets. Their voices are matched by their specialist skills in an array of period instruments including fiddle, bagpipes, lute, pipe and tabor, hurdy-gurdy and more.
In addition we hope to have members of a Sealed Knot Regiment making a contribution to the proceedings.
