Possible Clues:

• Merlin's time to play with the troubadour
• Musician
• Travelling musician of the middle ages
• He won't play to the gallery; he'll play from it
• Travelling singer once
• Singer of folk songs
• Old song 'The ... boy to the wars has gone'
• Travelling singer in Middle Ages
• Old musician, male in street on left
• Stir men playing lute primarily? He might