Music by the Leeds Waits

Name: Music by the Leeds Waits
Start: 2024-11-03T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-03T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Gawthorpe Hall

Schedule

Sun Nov 03 2024 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Gawthorpe Hall | Burnley, EN

Musicians from the Leeds Waits will perform music that would have been heard at Gawthorpe Hall in the early seventeenth century, linked with the 'Account of Life: Gawthorpe Hall in the 1600s' exhibition.
They will play at 12.30pm, 1.30pm and 2.30pm and talk about their historic musical instruments in between. Instruments include the recorder, crumhorn, shawm, rauschpfeiffe, rackett, curtal, Cornish and Flemish bagpipes, harp, cittern and hurdy-gurdy.
'Waits' were groups of town or civic musicians, the Leeds Waits existed from 1530 to 1835, and then revived in 1983.
According to the Shuttleworth Accounts books the original Leeds Waits performed at Gawthorpe Hall in 1618.
Included in entry to the Hall (£7 adults, children free). No booking required.
Further information at https://events.apps.lancashire.gov.uk/w/webpage/event-details?eventid=1120551