Medieval traveling minstrels often journeyed hundreds of miles by foot to conferences to learn new songs. Liza Malamut, artistic director of The Newberry Consort, has joined forces with Allison Monroe ...

James Wade is an associate professor of English at the University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge). (CN) — If you take Richard Heege at his word, then the reason so few minstrel tales survived ...

An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15 th-century manuscript. Raucous texts – mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences to get drunk; ...

A new study about a medieval tome includes the comedy script of an unnamed traveling entertainer, known as a minstrel, and provides a direct glimpse into the oral tradition of English minstrel acts.

The New York Kammermusiker returns to the Red River Valley this week to showcase classical chamber music for double-reed instruments. The small ensemble plays a short concert at 3 p.m. Thursday in the ...

Jesters, jousting and a torch-lit parade led by medieval minstrels are just a few of the highlights awaiting visitors to a historic village preparing to bring Christmas to life with a medieval twist.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT, And Other Tales, in Verse—John Masefield—Macmillan ($2). John Masefield is no minor poet, yet his genius is for telling a tale. The tale has been told time and again of Arthur and his ...