________________________________________________________ The Winchester Waytes Vigiles and musicians of the ancient capital of England Mediaeval, Tudor or Renaissance Band ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Photo Album

Tim Norris, co-founder of The Winchester Waytes

Tim Warren, co-founder of The Winchester Waytes

Sue Williams and Timothy Warren playing natural trumpets on top of The Westgate, Winchester for Italian television team and Tourist Office, August 2001.

The Winchester Waytes and local actors on top of The Westgate, Winchester for Italian television team and Tourist Office, August 2001.

Susan Williams, Timothy Warren and Tim Norris from The Winchester Waytes with a guest harpist inside The Westgate, Winchester for Italian television team and Tourist Office, August 2001.

Refreshments are served - the band takes a break- local Hampshire produce is served as traditional 12th century banquet for Italian television team and Touris Office, August 2001.

Exploring mediaeval music at The Vyne School, Basingstoke, 4 February 2004

Susan Williams rehearses "...with recorder, fife and drum..." simple rhythms, drones and melodies.

Phil Humphreys rehearses "Caput apri defero, Reddens laudes Domino" from the traditional Old English "The Boar's Head Carol".

"Endurez - Alleluya". A joyful sound with recorders, sackbutt, Indian bells and long drum.

Sue Williams, Angela Lewis and Phil Humphreys perform "Ductia", mediaeval dance music played on descant and treble recorders accompanied by finger cymbals.

Timothy Warren and Tim Norris demonstrate how simple mediaeval percussion instruments played such an important musical role.

Phil Humphreys shares his expertise at playing the crumhorn. Motet "Alla psallite cum Lunga".

Phil Humphreys and Tim Norris each playing a sackbutt (sometimes called sagbutt), an early form of trombone.

City Museum's Mediaeval Melodies

Mediaeval and Tudor Music in The Wintanceaster Gallery at The City Museum, Winchester, 4 December 2004.

Tim Norris plays a cornetto and children try their hand at blowing the replica of the City's own impressive bronze moot horn and other authentic musical instruments, 4 December,2004.

Tudor music in The Great Hall, Winchester. A conference banquet for education officers from UK museums, September 2005

A brief warm-up session in Queen Eleanor's Garden

Checking the acoustics in Winchester's mediaeval Great Hall

Keep it light and bright. A tudor volta to dance to.

Admiring the legendary Winchester Round Table

An interval breather

Mediaeval music from the time of The Crusades, 11th, 12th and 13th centuries performed in The City Museum, Winchester on 26 September 2006

Mediaeval music from the time of The Crusades performed by The Winchester Waytes in The City Museum, Winchester on the occasion of the International Businessmen's Reception, 26 September 2006. Instruments including cornetto, shawm, lute, nakers, recorders, gemshorns, mediaeval Moot Horn, cymbals, triangle, bells and a battery of percussion. A veritable feast to the ear!