All balladeer synonyms

noun balladeer

• troubadour — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
• minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
• songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
• crooner — A crooner is a male singer who sings sentimental songs, especially the love songs of the 1930s and 1940s.
• troubadour — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
• artist — An artist is someone who draws or paints pictures or creates sculptures as a job or a hobby.
• musician — a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.
• bard — People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard.
• poet — a person who composes poetry.
• songster — a person who sings; a singer.
• jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
• accompanist — An accompanist is a musician, especially a pianist, who plays one part of a piece of music while someone else sings or plays the main tune.
• vocalist — a singer.
• versifier — to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
• singer — Isaac Bashevis [bah-shev-is] /bɑˈʃɛv ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1904–91, U.S. novelist and short-story writer (in Yiddish), born in Poland: Nobel prize 1978.
• minnesinger — one of a class of German lyric poets and singers of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries.
• serenader — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
• trouveur — trouvère.
• rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
• folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
• trouvere — one of a class of medieval poets who flourished in northern France during the 12th and 13th centuries, wrote in langue d'oïl, and composed chiefly the chansons de geste and works on the themes of courtly love.