Edito de A New RigadoonAn exuberant romp through the 17th-century tradition, with a repertoire that extends from bawdy street ballads to Playford dances and Purcell rounds. Superb singing voices are matched by instrumentation that includes lute, fiddle, smallpipes, pipe and tabor, shawm, orpharion and hurdy-gurdy. Here is early music played with the zest of a contemporary folk band. ?Some of the best pop music of the 17th century.? Sing Out! (USA). 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, the tumultuous era of the English Civil War and Restoration. The performers appear in period costume, and concerts are enlivened by readings from diarists and poets. ?Terrific entertainment?, Brian Kay. BBC Radio 3 presenter.