Forthcoming Concerts by La Volta
Friday 15th March 2024, 7pm., Bethesda Baptist Church, Haverfordwest. Music from Tudor Times.. Tudor music performed on early instruments by La Volta. Tickets £5 (cash only) on the door. Covers admission together with mince pies, tea, coffee and light refreshments.
Links to other sites
www.earlymusicshop.com - largest retailer of early instruments in the U.K.
www.waits.org.uk -Waits were the civic musicians of the middle ages and renaissance. Ususally around three in number in the mediaeval period, they often numbered four to six players by 1600.Waits played mainly loud wind instruments such as shawms, sackbut, cornett and curtal .Recorders and crumhorns were played to give a change of colour or a softer sound indoors. Later groups also played stringed instruments. Around 1600 the English broken consort of violin, flute, bass viol, lute, cittern and bandora was very popular. ( Recreated groups have been formed in many towns and this site gives details of these groups together with a history of the waits.
Haverfordwest Waits
Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, was one of the towns that had a waits band. Accounts show that from 1579 to97 a company of waits, if not employed, was certainly clothed at the town's expense in liveries of grey frieze, faced with green taffeta and ornamented with green mockado and buttons (see Calendar of the Records of the Borough of Haverfordwest 1539-1660, ed.B.G.Charles: University of Wales Press)
www.dyfedchoir.co.uk -three of La Volta sing with the Dyfed Choir. Whilst performing music of all periods, Dyfed Choir have given concerts with leading period instrument ensembles such as Charivari Agrèable and the Gabrieli Consort and Players.
www.waits.org.uk -Waits were the civic musicians of the middle ages and renaissance. Ususally around three in number in the mediaeval period, they often numbered four to six players by 1600.Waits played mainly loud wind instruments such as shawms, sackbut, cornett and curtal .Recorders and crumhorns were played to give a change of colour or a softer sound indoors. Later groups also played stringed instruments. Around 1600 the English broken consort of violin, flute, bass viol, lute, cittern and bandora was very popular. ( Recreated groups have been formed in many towns and this site gives details of these groups together with a history of the waits.
Haverfordwest Waits
Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, was one of the towns that had a waits band. Accounts show that from 1579 to97 a company of waits, if not employed, was certainly clothed at the town's expense in liveries of grey frieze, faced with green taffeta and ornamented with green mockado and buttons (see Calendar of the Records of the Borough of Haverfordwest 1539-1660, ed.B.G.Charles: University of Wales Press)
www.dyfedchoir.co.uk -three of La Volta sing with the Dyfed Choir. Whilst performing music of all periods, Dyfed Choir have given concerts with leading period instrument ensembles such as Charivari Agrèable and the Gabrieli Consort and Players.