International Festival of Town Pipers 2006
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This page is intended as a quick reference for regular visitors to find out what's new on the site. Keep visiting Notes & Queries for other news
05/06/2008 The International Guild of Town Pipers Ltd is now a registered charity, and we are constantly in need of funds, not only to finance our International Festivals, but to finance Renaissance Loud Wind workshops and other educational ventures, help new bands get started, and to maintain and expand this website. Please check out our new Fundraising page for ways to raise funds at no cost to yourselves by online shopping or by using the specified search engine. I am currently researching and testing other fundraising methods via the web, and I would welcome your comments on this and any other method of raising funds. Watch this space.
24/05/2008 Al Radford has recently discovered evidence of the existance of several more original bands of Waits in the British Isles. See the Where Waits? page.
Apart from a few minor details, plans for the 3rd International Festival of Town Pipers are now complete. If you are taking part, you will find pdf files of the music for the "Big Blow" and the Friday afternoon procession by following the link above.
01/05/2008 Following the very successful workshop in Doncaster (see below) two more are being orgainsed - one by the Gloucester Waits and one by the Colchester Waits. See Notes & Queries for details.
07/04/2008 In order to make best use of the remaining funds from the 2006 Waits Festival, Alan Radford organised a Waits Workshop which took place on 5th April 2008. Click here for pictures of this very successful event.
01/01/2008 The untimely death of Ian Richardson, York Wait, has cast a long shadow over 2007. He will continue to be greatly missed. His obituary page, with all your messages and pictures, has been moved to our Miscellanea section, where it will remain. From Roger Offord of the Doncaster Waites comes a timely reminder on the new 2008 Notes & Queries page of how much we all owe to The York Waits.
Looking to the future, plans are afoot for the Third International Festival of Town Pipers to take place in Lincoln on Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June 2008. A draft programme has been drawn up, and applications for funding have been made. Members of the Waits Website email list will be informed when news becomes available.
With Ian's death, the position of Company Secretary of the International Guild of Town Pipers Ltd., which he set up, became vacant. Roger Offord has been appointed Company Secretary, with Al Radford as Chairman and Al Garrod and myself as directors.
Have a look on the Photos page for pictures of the York Waits' traditional Sheriff's Riding and the feast that followed it, and of the Lincoln Waits' newly revived ceremony of "Crying Christmas".
Very best wishes for 2008, and I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible in Lincoln at the end of June.
17/11/07 We are delighted to welcome the formation of the Lincoln Waites. The band of two rauchpfeife, lysard and two drums led the Mayor of Lincoln's procession for the switching on of the Christmas lights on Thursday 15th November, augmented and assisted by Doncaster Waites and myself. See the Lincoln Waites website for pictures.
10/11/07 The Leeds Waits website has had a complete re-design, including an update to the history section. Well worth a look.
28/10/2007 See the Music section for Alan Radford's images and midis of ten more tunes associated with Waits.
James Merryweather, Richard Rastall and Chris Gutteridge.
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