Medievalists.net blog offers a link to an article by David M. Guion dealing with wind bands from the 14th through 19th centuries. The article, published in the Journal of Band Research, Vol.42 (2007) is entitled: Wind bands in towns, courts, and churches from the Middle Ages to the Baroque.

East to West, North to South, the Bardic arts are beloved across all of Northshield. Last year, we celebrated the 20th Bardic Madness in Windhaven where it all began in the far eastern reaches of the Kingdom. This year, travel west with us to make ring the hills of Schattentor!

The Shire of Dun Ard presents Ceilidh 2011 Saturday April 16, 2011 in Leavenworth, Kansas.

It's time to put down your sword. Bardic Comfort Zone is a bardic get-together designed to encourage you to expand your comfort zone.

Escape Winter's Dreary hold; bask in the promise of Spring; join us in a Japanese Garden for Bright Hills Baronial Birthday and Investiture.

For centuries, church historians have been puzzled by the symbols carved into diamond-shaped stones in the fascade of Naples' renaissance Gesù Nuovo church, but new eivdence shows that the engravings are a musical score. (audio)

Silvershell Musical Instruments offers harps and early musical instruments that have excellent sound, are well made and are good value.

Come one and all to the Wilds of Greyfells to experience a day of ferocious fun and fellowship. We will gather together to sing the splendour of spring and celebrate earths finest fauna, real, mythological and heraldic!

We invite everyone to our annual Court of Love given in honor of M'lady Alaine ni Deorin and her champion, our Lord Protector, Lord Drell McIan Blackwood.

The Barony of Dun Carraig invites you to return to another day in the Medieval Middle East. There will be the usual drumming, dancing and enough fabulous food & drink to keep all attendees happy throughout the day.

Dancing and merriment are the cure for the short, cold days of winter, and you are cordially invited to the Crosston Dance Ball. If you enjoy period dance to music by live musicians, good food, and fine costumes, then this is the event for you! 

Bryn Gwlad's Candlemas Celebration will be held on February 5, 2011. At that time, a new Arts and Sciences Champion will be chosen to serve at the pleasure of their new Halberd Excellencies, Master Pug and Mistress Myfanwy.

The Barony of South Downs will be hosting Midwinter Arts & Sciences on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at Druid Hills Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA.

Members of the Incipient Shire of Ballachlagan (Kingdom of AEthelmearc) recently teamed with students from Brooke High School to celebrate Twelfth Night at Olde St. John Episcopal Church in Wheeling, West Virginia. Warren Scott of the Herald Star attended the event.

Join Rivenvale for our annual Winter Revel. This is a free event. Period Garb is required and feastware is strongly recommended. Please bring a food item or beverage to share. Alcoholic beverages are permitted. There is a sink, stove, and refrigerator on site.

Those attending West Kingdom Twelfth Night were treated to a performance of The Deceived by the Golden Stag Players. A bawdy trailer video is available on Facebook for those who weren't able to see it live.

In the first quarter of the 14th century, Anian 'Sais', the Bishop of Bangor in Wales, possessed a manuscript comprised of liturgical instructions and a substantial body of plainchant. Now, thanks to a collaboration between the University and Bangor Cathedral, the manuscript is available to view online.

The British Red Cross has threatened a Scottish production of the pantomime show 'The Magical Adventures of Robin Hood" for placing a red cross on a nurse's costume.

What do you get when you mashup an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon poem with a twentieth-century antiwar pop song? A very amusing music video, sort of a "Cliff's Notes" version of the epic tale.

Mark your calendars for January 8 and we'll finish up the winter holiday season with joyous merrymaking (and full stomachs!). We are pleased to announce that the Bard of Caid competition will be held and we look forward to enjoying and sharing the rich bardic talent that thrives in Caid.

The Canton of Caldrithig Presents The Barony of Skraeling Althing Twelfth Night Puppets & Pies January 8, 2011

Their Excellencies Girard and Guenievre and the Barony of Windmasters' Hill invite you to join us the weekend of February 18-20, 2011 for Ymir XXXVI at the Betsy Jeff Penn 4H Center in Reidsville, NC. 

Come celebrate Twelfth Night the old way! games! music! dance! theatre! contests! Stretch your mind at the classes and your purse strings at the merchants and raffle. Revel with Royalty. Lavish gifts on friends and family.

Violinist Andre Rieu wows a stadium full of spectators with a beautiful Celtic rendition of the hymn Amazing Grace, complete with a band of pipers and a lone pennywhistle. The video is available on YouTube.

On their website, the early music group Piffaro offers a wonderful video demonstration of renaissance wind instruments.

One of the most important tasks set before the Crown is the establishment of a secure line of succession, thus assuring the peaceful transition of power in the event of the untimely demise of our Beloved King and Queen. The ancient and noble traditions of our Society call for the Successors to be chosen by Combat, and the Crown Tournament is the chosen vehicle for this Rite.

The year comes to a close here in the small demense of Fair Haven Hall. Travelers and subjects of the manor make the trek to the small Northumbrian hamlet to spend the final day of the Christmastide in music dance, games, merriment and a camaraderie little seen outside the immense oaken doors of the picturesque hall.

Looking for something to do on New Year's Eve? Everyone is welcome to The Baronial Keep in Selviergard. We shall open our home for games, bardic, food, fighting, and whatever else we may think to do.

The Harmonia Early Music website has posted a podcast of a program regarding the 15th century Feast of the Pheasant, a lavish banquet intended to kickoff a crusade against the Turks in Constantinople. The program features entertainment at the banquet.

The Celtic gods will get their day when the story of Cúchulainn, Ireland's greatest warrior, comes to movie theaters. The film will be part of a "multi-platform project planned to include a documentary series, stage show, educational programming and graphic novel."