The Oxford Waits - Take their name from a real-life band of city musicians who flourished during the 17th century. Lincoln Waites - The history of Lincoln's civic band from medieval times to the 19th century. The Waits Website - An academic site designed to accumulate and disseminate information on the history of Waits and their European equivalents. Kings Lynn Waites - Medieval, Tudor and Renaissance style Town Band of Waits or Waites. Colchester Waits - Revival of the City's civic musicians of medieval and Renaissance times, playing shawms, sackbuts and other loud wind instruments. The York Waits - A 16th century, living history band playing Period European street music, popular dance, and ballad tunes, using a noyse of shawms, ancestors of the oboe-bassoon family, and characteristic instruments of waits before 1600.