jongleur

As a modern troubadour, mining the social perspective of the chansons réalistes, Aznavour was the inheritor of a French tradition that can be traced back to the entertainment of the medieval jongleur.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2018

The other difference is that Tagore wasn’t a jongleur, that is, a singer of his own songs, though he might well have wanted such a career among his several.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2016

Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little or impudent.

From Time Magazine Archive

But you know, being a jongleur, you gotta know people.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Not lyric poets then, or even jongleurs, but bricoleurs, who occupy a separate category because they work across genres.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2016

Medieval France had its jongleurs; Elizabethan London, its ballad singers and costermongers.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the hour after supper Barty, perched on a barrel in the court-yard, saw jongleurs and dancers, with bells on head and neck and heels, capering in the flare of the torches.

From In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

The German minnesingers differed from the French troubadours in that they themselves accompanied their songs on the viol, instead of employing jongleurs.

From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell

In composing these pieces, of very varied character, the jongleurs have practised an art which was in many respects rudimentary, but sincere and simple.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various