LUSTY BROADSIDE BALLADS & PLAYFORD DANCES FROM 17th CENTURY ENGLAND - CITY WAITES

Lusty Broadside Ballads & Playford Dances of 17th Century England

City Waites
directed by
Lucie Skeaping

“nearly flawless: singing is not flashy, but genuinely well executed … playing is solid and infectious … songs are well selected and intelligently ordered – as if it could have been plucked from a tavern 350 years ago …. Throughout, there is an infectious joy expressed in the four-part harmonies. There are songs here that make the listener want to jump and dance a merry jig” (MusicWeb)

“City Waites give us a taste of the broadside ballad culture which pervaded the Restoration years … and instrumental numbers from well-known anthologies like Playford’s Dancing Master … whilst other numbers have been dredged up straight from the 17th-century gutter” (Gramophone)

[1] Bobbing Jo 1.25
[2] Brooms for old shoes 1.38
[3] The Traders Medley 2.31
[4] Diddle diddle (Lavenders Green) 2.41
[5] We be Soldiers Three 1.26
[6] Branles 4.58
[7] The Three Ravens 2.57
[8] Tomorrow the Fox will come to Town 2.30
[9] My dog and I 4.06
[10] The Merry, merry Milkmaids 1.42
[11] Newcastle 1.53
[12] The Northern Lassies Lamentation (Oak & The Ash) 2.56
[13] The Jovial Broom Man 3.01
[14] Nine Pins/Jenny Pluck Pears/Half Hanekin 4.20
[15] The Baffled Knight 3.42
[16] Paul’s Wharf 2.01
[17] Tobacco is an Indian Weed 3.10
[18] You lasses and lads 1.39
[19] Jockey’s Lamentation (Over the hills & far away) 4.20
[20] Blue Cap 1.17
[21] The Crossed Couple 3.50
[22] The Farmer’s Cursed Wife (Lillibulero) 4.38
[23] Lumps of Pudding 2.41
[24] The Broom of the Cowdenowes 2.59
[25] The Chirping of the Lark/Parsons Farewell 2.09