troubadour
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“Right now I’m a solo artist, which is kind of fun. I’m up there like a folk troubadour, singing the songs, reading from the book, and making some well-timed joke,” he told Salon.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 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
The troubadour, Chrétien, plays a few more notes, and then lowers himself onto a stool.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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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
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
A jazz clarinetist who reinvented himself as a singer-songwriter, Dalla nonetheless became one of Italy’s most beloved troubadours in the later decades of the 20th century.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
"And tomorrow?" the innkeeper asks the children, as the troubadours collect their instruments.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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