Hi and welcome to the site of wynndebagge and The New St George Waits, purveyors of medieval rock'nroll.  A professional musician since 1990, wynndebagge (bagpipes, banter, hurdy-gurdy, woodwinds and gittern) has played in a number of outfits (that's costumes and bands!), one of the first being The Baggettes, a medieval good-time party band - weddings, hanging, floggings, ritual disembowellings, in fact any cause of public celebration.  Then in 2002 English Heritage commissioned  wynndebagge to provide a band to celebrate England's patron saint day and The New St George Waits was born, since when the band has gone on to play major festivals, occasions and venues throughout the UK.  Their trademark rock'n'roll approach to the music is unique as is the banter and humour between numbers as well as their renowned audience participation session.

The name of the band is a pun, a wait being the name for a member of medieval or Renaissance  town band and The New St George being the title of a slightly seditious song of our times from the Richard Thompson album Henry the Human Fly.  The show celebrates a gentle spirit of Englishness in humour and music whilst creating a very continental and north african sound in its style.  With English bagpipes, hurdy gurdy, curtal, shawm, rauschpfeife, rope-tensioned drums, mandola and gittern, they play everything from a medieval poeasant dance to Elizabeth I's favoutrite groove plus some contemporary numbers remiscent of earlier times.  As well as the tunes, the show includes a good line in banter plus the occasional song of celebration, seduction, sedition and social unrest.

Visit wynndebagge's website at www.wynndebagge.co.uk