The Oxford Waits

2022 EVENTS

SATURDAY 4 JUNE 2022

Jubilee Celebrations, Community Concert

Iffley Church Hall

SATURDAY 4 JUNE 2022

Boar's Hill

Private function

SUNDAY 12 JUNE 2022

Shotover

Private function

SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2022

Frolics of Oxfordshire

St Mary' Church, Thame

THURSDAY 1 DECEMBER 2022

Wootton & Dry Sandford

Private function

WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER

A 17th-century Christmas

St Andrew's Church, South Stoke 

7pm

5-piece: Tim, Caroline, Ian, Edwin & Jon

Tickets £10 from

'Inspirations' (Goring Arcade) &

South Stoke Community Shop

SUNDAY 18 DECEMBER 2022

A 17th-century Christmas

5-piece: Tim, Caroline, Ian, Edwin & Jon

Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3BN

3.30 (matinee) & 7.30pm (evening)

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! £15/£13 (concessions) 

from Tickets Oxford at the Oxford Playhouse

tel 01865 305305 online www.ticketsoxford.com

Or ring Tim Healey 01865 249194

 

 

 

The Oxford Waits at the old Abbey Buildings, Abingdon 2019. Left to right: Ian Giles, Edwin Pritchard, Caroline Butler, Jon Fletcher & Tim Healey. (Photo Ed Nix)

'Terrific entertainment’ Brian Kay, BBC Radio 3

The 5-piece band in the old Abbey Buildings, Abingdon (photo Ed Nix)

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. Performers appear in period costume, and concerts are enlivened by street ballads, dance tunes, airs and rounds as well as readings from diarists and poets. Superb singing voices are matched by specialist skills in an array of period instruments.

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LINE-UP

The five piece: 

Tim Healey (narrator, vocals, shawm, recorder, pandora)

Caroline Butler (vocals, baroque violin)

Ian Giles (vocals, hurdy gurdy, percussion)

Edwin Pritchard (vocals, fiddle, hurdy gurdy, nyckelharpa & hammered dulcimer)

Jon Fletcher (vocals, lute, cittern)

The Oxford Waits have performed at a wealth of festivals, churches, theatres and arts centres, as well as featuring on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. In 2006 they performed before her Majesty the Queen at the Royal Opening of Oxford Castle.

Go to menu bar (top left) for more information on recordings, band members, a Radio 4 programme, and the historic Oxford Waits who played in the streets of the 17th-century city.

Samples of our music can be heard on the Recordings page on the menu bar (top left)

Bookings

A full band line-up consists of five performers, but the Oxford Waits are also represented by larger and smaller combinations of musicians, as well as by individual artists in solo appearances. The Oxford Waits are available for public concerts - and for private events too, such as banquets, fairs, themed parties, school visits, weddings and Civil War re-enactments.

Bookings: tel 01865 249194

Caroline & Edwin
Edwin, Caroline & Ian
Jon & Tim
Shotover House, private event, 12 June 2022
Shotover House, playing for a dance
The Oxford Waits have often played for period dances, as here with the Vale Island Dancers in Oxford Town Hall (photo Chris Bates)