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

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 ...

Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir (MWC), the only large volunteer choral group in the U.S. and Europe dedicated to performing medieval music, rings in the holiday season with a program titled “Natus ...

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 ...