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 ...

Although by the fourteenth century, minstrels had passed the time of it's greatest glory, which had been the period of the troubadours, the courts of kings and nobles were still the center of ...

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