The city clerk has not had an application yet this year.” To be precise, the instrument carried about by these Italians—and ...

FRYEBURG – The almost motionless man at the fair – the one who looks like a wax statue handing out fake tickets while behind him two mechanical monkeys play a grinder organ – has, as expected, some ...

He comes singing songs of love? Still from The Conjuring © Warner Bros. 2013 The terrifying new trailer for The Conjuring, the new horror movie from Saw director ...

Charles Nelson, left, and David Herrera pose for a photograph at the upcoming Hurdy Gurdy restaurant, located in the old Mudhen building at the Dallas Farmers Market. Jason Janik / Special Contributor ...

Twenty-seven years ago, in search of a hurdy-gurdy master, Donald Heller wandered into a music shop in Budapest. There, he saw a beautiful maiden, an ancient-looking stringed instrument in her lap, ...

Donovan’s 1968 song, “Hurdy Gurdy Man” noted “the crying of humanity” over the war in Vietnam and widespread civil unrest. Counter culture balladeers — Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The hurdy-gurdy is the duck-billed platypus of instruments. It has strings but you don’t pick or strum them. It ...

The Daily Gazette is reprinting excerpts of the late Larry Hart’s long-running column, “Tales of Old Dorp.” Donovan, the 1960s rock singer, wasn’t the only man with a story about the “hurdy-gurdy man.

True to type, I was last to switch off the lights when we flitted from North Bridge down the road to Holyrood. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...

Now here’s a palate-cleanser of a novel for you. There’s something refreshing about a book that springs out at us unforeseen by fashion or precedent, though we might expect the unexpected from ...