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The Wandering Minstrels music agency specializes in three main styles of music:
The Wandering Minstrels is a music agency based in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. All of our musicians are extremely accomplished on their respective instruments. Most are professional musicians who earn their livelihoods playing music in Ottawa, Gatineau and beyond. Members of The Wandering Minstrels have performed for Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Canadian Prime Ministers, Nelson Mandela and others. Our musicians, have played with respected Canadian artists like Garnet Rogers and Jane Siberry, as well as respected traditional musicians throughout Canada, the United States, Britain and Ireland. Most of our musicians are recording artists in their own right and have also appeared as guest musicians on countless CD releases. They have appeared on CBC radio and television and performed at innumerable folk festivals across Canada and beyond. Whether for your wedding or your 'kitchen party', with The Wandering Minstrels you are getting the very best. |
The Wandering Minstrels take their name from
the acclaimed musicians of 17th and 18th century
Ireland and Scotland who traveled the countryside
playing music at weddings and social gatherings and
composing for the gentry. The most famous among
these include harpers Turlough O'Carolan and Rory
Dall O'Cathain in Ireland and harper Rory Dall Morrison
and the Gow fiddler-composers in Scotland. The
Wandering Minstrels are proud to include the compo-
sitions of these great masters in their repertoires. For
hundreds of years the bagpipe was king of instruments
at dances and festivities, and especially at weddings.
In Scotland and northern England, every major town
employed a piper whose job it was to pipe through
town at dawn and at dusk. Later, other instruments
such as fiddle and flute became widely popular as well.