Both klezmer and New Orleans jazz have undergone a tremendous revival of late as younger musicians have reinvented and reinvigorated these traditions, imbuing them with a new and vital spirit. Brave Old World and Kermit Ruffins and *His Barbecue Swingers* are extraordinary young players on the cutting edge of tradition musical ambassadors of their communities. Armed with impressive virtuosity and contemporary sensibilities, they carry the best of history as they create the future.

Main Entry: 1bard
Pronunciation: 'bärd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Scottish Gaelic & Irish
1 a : a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds b : a composer, singer, or declaimer of epic or heroic verse
2 : POET

Main Entry: trou·ba·dour
Pronunciation: 'trü-b&-"dOr, -"dor, -"dur
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Old Provençal trobador, from trobar to compose, probably from (assumed) Vulgar Latin tropare, from Latin tropus trope
: one of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians often of knightly rank who flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century chiefly in the south of France and the north of Italy and whose major theme was courtly love – compare TROUVère

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