A mechanical string instrument from the Middle Ages that can still evoke chills today... With a few turns on a hurdy-gurdy’s hand crank, a rosined wheel sweeps against the instrument’s three main ...

For more than two decades medieval folk rock duo Blackmore’s Night has been performing its unique blend of rock meets medieval folk on authentic period instruments. The band is led by husband and wife ...

Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir (MWC), the only large volunteer choral group in the U.S. and Europe dedicated to performing medieval music, rings in the holiday season with a program titled “Natus ...

Matthew SparkesGuitar, piano, flute and violin are the staples of school music lessons. Rarely will a child come home with a medieval lute or one of its close cousins, the English theorbo or liuto ...

Musician Ethan James, whose career spanned the psychedelic 1960s to the punk 1980s and ended as a performer of medieval folk music, has died. He was 56. Mr. James, who moved back to San Francisco ...