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"Traditional Storytellers for the 21st Century."
Tim and Leanne perform traditional folk tales, the unwritten "oral literature" that can be found all over the world. In a signature duo style, their voices intertwine and overlap in a kind of narrative counterpoint, a compelling blend of technique and soul. Their stories have been drawn from countries that historically or currently have contributed to Vermont’s population, including Ireland, Scotland, England, French Canada, Poland, Germany, China, India, Africa, and nations from within the former Soviet bloc. In and around the tales, the couple plays traditional Celtic music on harp and concertina.
Performances are of flexible length and on varying themes. Workshops of various lengths are available, focusing on specific techniques that help bring a fine old story to life for a modern audience.
Programs are available for adults, children, and mixed audiences.
$400-600; Workshops (in conjunction with performance) start at $150
Storytelling-- artistic colloquial narrative speech-- is a deeply rooted living Vermont tradition, from blacksmith shop to auto garage, from kitchen junket to folk festival.
Tim and Leanne are master storytellers who have whose development was shaped through three decades performing for Vermonters. They specialize in the highly endangered tradition of oral tales about youngest children, branching roads, wicked monarchs, fools, rogues, talking animals, helpful spirits, and things that go bump in the night.
Over the years, they have found some wonderful stories still in oral circulation among families around the state.
Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder
PO Box 522
Montpelier, VT 05601
(802) 223-9103, telephone
(802) 223-9104, fax
tim@folktale.net
http://www.folktale.net/