strolling minstrel

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This relaxed, strolling minstrel evoked a stream of folksy vaudevillians, from Will Rogers through Guthrie and beyond.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2012

No doubt of it, Sir Knight," answered the governor; "but it is the strolling minstrel, and not the high-born English knight, against whom the charge is brought.

From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Scott, Walter, Sir

We, too, had our music; a strolling minstrel came to our tent by appointment to play on his guitar.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James

Is De Lacy sunk so low, that his dishonour shall be told by a common strolling minstrel, as calmly as if it were a theme for a vain ballad?

From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir

There is certainly no flattery in this," replied Luciè; "but I will confess nothing,—except that I danced away my spirits last evening, and was most melodiously disturbed afterwards, by some strolling minstrel.

From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Cheney, Harriet Vaughan