The Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club. Who: The Arrogant Worms, the Second Fiddles. Where: Fair Lawn Community Center, 10-10 20th St., Fair Lawn. When: Saturday, 8 p.m. How much: $25. Call (201) 384-8465 or ...

The hurdy-gurdy is one of Europe's oldest musical instruments. A kind of mechanical violin, it uses keys and a crank, along with melody and drone strings. Some call it the medieval synthesizer, and a ...

Today's Beautiful Music is an introduction to the hurdy-gurdy. The unusual string instrument is played with a hand crank, and its ancestor -- the organistrum -- dates back at least to the 12th century ...

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South Western Railway is searching for the owner of a unique homemade hurdy-gurdy found in lost property after the unusual ...

He is the shaman. Donovan in the David Lynch-directed video for 'I am the Shaman' Despite the hiccups Donovan was established and, ultimately, his ascendancy was about the songs rather than any ...

Did a Scottish folk-singer lay the groundwork for one of music's defining heavy rock acts? Donovan thinks so. Speaking in a new interview, the 79-year-old musician claims he helped create Led Zeppelin ...

It never hurts to iterate the phrase “Op-Ed” at the beginning of articles in this section. It may help us (in this case, I) remember that the writer is not an encyclopedia or – to be more current – ...

The greatest thing about heavy metal is that you can do anything with it. There are as many sub-genres as there are bands, and leading the current horde of folk-metal heathens is Switzerland’s ...