Elaine Moore’s portrait of Dolly Parton “A country singer helps to cure the world’s ills”, FT Weekend, November 21) cited several of the covers of her song “Jolene”, but missed the medieval-style ...

“Bored in the house and I’m in the house bored,” starts a familiar refrain on TikTok. Here’s a closer look at ‘bardcore,’ and how it took over social media during the pandemic. Last year during the ...

2020 has given us a lot: a new Beyoncé visual album, Tiger King, an unprecedented and woefully mishandled global pandemic. It’s also given us #bardcore, a recent viral music trend which reimagines pop ...

Why have ye turned to the Bardcore of yore to make merry? In the year of our Lorde 2020, as the pox travelld across the land, a noble type of song began to spreadeth. Gone was the tune of voice; ...

2020 has been one of the most eventful years in recent history and it can be hard to keep up with everything going on. One of the strangest, yet amazing, developments has been the rise in popularity ...

Hardcore music and medieval aesthetics might not seem an intuitive pairing, but an internet trend and music genre that took off in lockdown has infiltrated the real world via alternative club nights ...

Taking modern day hits and turning them into Middle Age masterpieces. Forget the instrumental melodies and drifting Gregorian chant that filled the streets of most medieval towns over a thousand years ...

Medievalised remakes of hit songs – complete with lutes, flutes and ye olde-style lyrics – are booming online. What giveth? Name: Bardcore. Age: A couple of months (if we ignore Sting). Musicologists ...

SINGAPORE - Bored during lockdown in Germany, Singaporean engineer Stanley Yong decided, for a lark, to set Shakira's sultry 2006 dance hit Hips Don't Lie to mediaeval instruments. The 35-year-old, ...