The Doncaster Waites take their name from the bands of musicians who used to be employed by local corporations as town musicians, ‘The Waites’. The present band are all local musicians with an interest in early music. The music they play is generally centred around the first half of the 17th century, the time when the first detailed accounts of the original Doncaster Waites appear in the archives. Their clothes are also based on these accounts and the men accurately represent how the original Waites would have looked at that time. Women of course would never have been Waites, but we like to think that the Waites would have been joined by their friends and family in private music making in the houses and inns of Doncaster.