“The only vestige of these musical vagrants now remaining, is to be found in the blind fiddlers wandering about the country, and the ballad singers, who frequently accompany their ditties with instrumental music, especially the fiddle, vulgarly called a crowd, and the guitar. And here we may observe, that the name of fiddlers was applied to the minstrels as early at least as the fourteenth century: it occurs in the Vision of Pierce the Ploughman, where we read, "not to fare as a fydeler, or a frier, to seke feastes."”

At a concert, commenting to the audience about The Used's song "Burning in the Aftermath", reported in Jason Newell (July 8, 2003) "Teens chill at hot concert", Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison (2010).

Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way, from Dreaming My Dreams (1975).
Song lyrics

Source: Staff Reporter, "Mangalampalli can't wait to come home"
On his singing on the occasion of an India-Pakistan cricket match.

1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

About strategy http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/play/indias-idol-shreya-ghoshal/

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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Minstrels

dig interview (2004)