Saturday 6th December 12 noon

St Mary's church, North Bar Within, Beverley

Tickets from NCEM website

The York Waits with Deborah Catterall

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For many years The York Waits have provided a soundtrack to the festive seasons of England and Europe from the 1400s to the early 1700s. Three of the group’s recordings have focused on Christmas music, including some of the very earliest carols, dating from the 15th century, plus elaborate 16th and 17th century settings of Lutheran chorales and songs that are still familiar, such as “In Dulci Jubilo”. There have been folk carols from around Europe and music that reflects the hardships and the jollities of the “Little Ice Age” that gripped England in the Tudor and Jacobean periods. The title of 2025’s sequence of Christmas concerts is  “Welcome Yule”, taken from one of earliest English carols, and the Waits are based in a city where rumbustious celebrations of the old Norse Yuletide carried on till the late 1500s and have been revived today. After their final concert on December 21, the Waits head back to York to lead a procession around its streets that heralds the arrival of the 12 Days of Christmas, with an ancient proclamation that is read at some of the city’s most historic places, including the Minster and the Mansion House.

Saturday 13th December 7.30pm

St Peter's Church, Market Bosworth

Tickets £15, or £25 for two, £10 for under 16s. From: admin@bosworthbenefice.org.uk

Or telephone 01455 817255

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For many years The York Waits have provided a soundtrack to the festive seasons of England and Europe from the 1400s to the early 1700s. Three of the group’s recordings have focused on Christmas music, including some of the very earliest carols, dating from the 15th century, plus elaborate 16th and 17th century settings of Lutheran chorales and songs that are still familiar, such as “In Dulci Jubilo”. There have been folk carols from around Europe and music that reflects the hardships and the jollities of the “Little Ice Age” that gripped England in the Tudor and Jacobean periods. The title of 2025’s sequence of Christmas concerts is  “Welcome Yule”, taken from one of earliest English carols, and the Waits are based in a city where rumbustious celebrations of the old Norse Yuletide carried on till the late 1500s and have been revived today. After their final concert on December 21, the Waits head back to York to lead a procession around its streets that heralds the arrival of the 12 Days of Christmas, with an ancient proclamation that is read at some of the city’s most historic places, including the Minster and the Mansion House.

Sunday 21st December 12 noon

Lawrence Batley Cellar Space, Huddersfield

Tickets from LBT website

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For many years The York Waits have provided a soundtrack to the festive seasons of England and Europe from the 1400s to the early 1700s. Three of the group’s recordings have focused on Christmas music, including some of the very earliest carols, dating from the 15th century, plus elaborate 16th and 17th century settings of Lutheran chorales and songs that are still familiar, such as “In Dulci Jubilo”. There have been folk carols from around Europe and music that reflects the hardships and the jollities of the “Little Ice Age” that gripped England in the Tudor and Jacobean periods. The title of 2025’s sequence of Christmas concerts is  “Welcome Yule”, taken from one of earliest English carols, and the Waits are based in a city where rumbustious celebrations of the old Norse Yuletide carried on till the late 1500s and have been revived today. After their final concert on December 21, the Waits head back to York to lead a procession around its streets that heralds the arrival of the 12 Days of Christmas, with an ancient proclamation that is read at some of the city’s most historic places, including the Minster and the Mansion House.

Sunday 7th December 3.30pm

Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth

Tickets from Wentworth Church

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For many years The York Waits have provided a soundtrack to the festive seasons of England and Europe from the 1400s to the early 1700s. Three of the group’s recordings have focused on Christmas music, including some of the very earliest carols, dating from the 15th century, plus elaborate 16th and 17th century settings of Lutheran chorales and songs that are still familiar, such as “In Dulci Jubilo”. There have been folk carols from around Europe and music that reflects the hardships and the jollities of the “Little Ice Age” that gripped England in the Tudor and Jacobean periods. The title of 2025’s sequence of Christmas concerts is  “Welcome Yule”, taken from one of earliest English carols, and the Waits are based in a city where rumbustious celebrations of the old Norse Yuletide carried on till the late 1500s and have been revived today. After their final concert on December 21, the Waits head back to York to lead a procession around its streets that heralds the arrival of the 12 Days of Christmas, with an ancient proclamation that is read at some of the city’s most historic places, including the Minster and the Mansion House.

Saturday 20th December 7.30pm

St Lawrence Church York

Tickets from NCEM website

The York Waits & Ex Corde

21st December procession departs 6pm prompt from Micklegate Bar.