troubadour

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

More affecting is Malta's elegant and sentimental ballad Bella, sung by moustachioed troubadour Aidan.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

The Texas troubadour is celebrating not what’s withered and worn but authentic and real.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 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

One of them stands up, and I see that he's wearing the fancy sleeves of a troubadour, though they're caked with the dirt of the road.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

"And tomorrow?" the innkeeper asks the children, as the troubadours collect their instruments.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz