troubadour

“Right now I’m a solo artist, which is kind of fun. I’m up there like a folk troubadour, singing the songs, reading from the book, and making some well-timed joke,” he told Salon.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

In Venezuela composer Antonio Estévez’s “Cantata Criolla,” a song contest between a macho Venezuelan troubadour and the devil leads to the spiritual ecstasy of exorcism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Over the past year, the shaggy-haired guitarist and singer has emerged as a modern-day protest troubadour, collaborating with Baez, selling out concert halls, and soaring to rarified fame on social media.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

In October, Texas troubadour Charley Crockett, who has derided the trap-inflected “bro country” coming out of Nashville, played a solo set at Lucinda’s before moving uptown for a three-night residency at Café Carlyle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Her bright voice fills my room like the music of a lute, and she is like a troubadour with her tales, though none are bawdy or bad.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Taylor says he is among the last of a generation of troubadours who experienced and wrote about the "romance of the road" from the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

It helped establish a popular theme among modern-day troubadours with its tale of a lonely and destitute wanderer far from home “with a dollar in my hand, and an aching in my heart.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2023

“Here’s the thing — we’re descended, singer-songwriters, from troubadours in the Middle Ages,” Mr. Crosby told the San Luis Obispo Tribune in 2017.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

How many times did "Gilmore Girls" have a show, a tiny village with not one but multiple troubadours and Miss Patty's prolific dance studio?

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022

The revolutionary element he introduced into the sacred music he wrote at Notre-Dame was something he’d clearly learnt from the troubadours, who had in turn picked it up from Spain: rhythm.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall