wandering minstrel
Traveling song performer
A wandering minstrel is a traveling musician or singer, especially one from medieval Europe who moved from town to town performing songs and ballads for audiences.
The phrase evokes romantic images of troubadours with lutes: He fancied himself a wandering minstrel, guitar slung over his shoulder.
Now mostly literary or whimsical.
- lutePear-bodied fretted strings
- troubadourMedieval Provençal lyric poet
- songMusical piece with words
- jongleurMedieval wandering entertainer
- gleemanAnglo-Saxon traveling minstrel
court jester · griot · road · open road · bard · skald · lyre · nomad · balladeer · tale spinner · folklore · tune · vagabond · cloak · oral tradition · verse · itinerant · sonnet
- folk musiciansfolk singer, folk guitarist, folk duo, folk trio, fiddler
- oral traditionfolk narratives, campfire tales, epics, oral poetry, storytelling circles
- bardsbard, bards, skald, jongleur, gleeman
- medieval entertainersjester, jongleur, troubadour, juggler, fool
- Street Performersbusker, street performer, street singer, street dancer, juggler
- wanderershikers, vagabond, drifter, roamers, nomad
wandering minstrelcourt musician
Performer employed by royalty
court composer · music director · orchestra conductor · choirmaster · church organist
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