Features A history of the troubadour: from the High Middle Ages to Bob Dylan by Luke Saunders Is Bob Dylan the last surviving troubadour? A brief history of the travelling song men of the High Middle Ages before the Black Death wiped them out. Bob Dylan was…
Features A history of the lute: from the middle Renaissance to rock by Luke Saunders “Now divine aire, now is his soule ravisht, is it not strange that sheepes guts should hale soules out of mens bodies?” – William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing. Sounds…
Interviews The post Woodford daze and the future of folk music, a conversation with Irish Mythen by Happy Amidst the middle of her whirlwind debut Australian tour, folk troubadour Irish Mythen takes some time out to chat about her tour and stature of folk music. HAPPY: So this…
