Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

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 ...

For some, Renaissance music provokes images of amorous madrigals, gleeful calls to go a-maying, and a lot of fa-la-la-ing. But the music is really more substantial than that. It frees the imagination, ...

You probably awoke today not knowing you live in the city "of the lute," a stringed instrument of medieval origins. "Duluth" means "of the lute" in French. This city's name speaks of an instrument ...

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 ...

You’ve heard of a pack of wolves, a gaggle of geese and a pride of lions. Now, courtesy of Candlelight Concerts, you can thrill to a “noyse of violins.” This Saturday evening at Columbia’s James Rouse ...

Take a musical journey back in time when Courtly Noyse brings music from the Renaissance — along with reproduction instruments of that era — to the Rancho Bernardo Library. Seating is limited for the ...

Accentus, an early music ensemble from Austria, revives art forms rarely presented to Egyptian audiences A music ensemble from Austria invites Egyptian audiences into a journey through the era of old ...