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Katy
Cawkwell
Action-packed
narratives that untangle some of the richest material in
the British and Norse traditions. Performing
'The Romance of
Lancelot'
www.katycawkwell.moonfruit.com
Ben
Haggarty
& Sianed
Jones
Top British
storyteller and radical Welsh chanteuse/violinist
performing Frankenstein (Sunday
only).
www.crickcrackclub.com
www.sianed.co.uk
Michael
Harvey
Bi-lingual
Welsh/English teller, with performances including spine
shivering tales from Brittany, and 'The Story of Branwen'
from The Mabinogion.
Hugh
Lupton
Retelling
some of the most beautiful and disturbing Greek
myths with Daniel Morden
(Fri);
plus 'On Common Ground',
the story
of the English Enclosures and the loss of the
Commons told through the story of John Clare, the
'Peasant-Poet'... a
powerful new
story and music show
with Chris Wood.
www.angelfire.com/folk/hughlupton
Daniel
Morden
Performing 'Icarus' with
Hugh Lupton.
(Friday only).
‘Fabulous’
The Guardian
Sheila
Stewart
MBE
Venerated
Scots traveller storyteller
and ballad singer.
TUUP
Originally
from Guyana, the one and only
‘Unprecedented Unorthodox
Preacher’. Will tell the Seminole Indian 'Adventures of
Crow Dog' , Saturday afternoon in The Blue Garden......
Robin & Bina
Williamson
Incredible
String Band founder and a
legendary figure in
British storytelling
performs solo
('The Story of Lleu' from The Mabinogion) and with his wife Bina.
www.pigswhiskermusic.co.uk
Chris Wood
(Sunday only).
Pioneering
singer, fiddle-player
and composer, performing 'On Common Ground' with Hugh
Lupton.
www.englishacousticcollective.org.uk/cw
Ruffstylz & Beatbox Fozzy
Creative lyricist Ruffstylz (World Record holder for
longest freestyle rap) and amazing human beatboxer from Cardiff. Expect acapella
fireworks when Ruffstylz meets Inuit throat singer
Taqralik Partridge on Friday night…..
Batanai
Marimba
(Sat Only)
Joyous and
celebratory British-based Zimbabwean dance band fronted
by singer/marimba player Wedzerai Zvirevo. Wedzi will
also be telling traditional Southern African stories in
the children’s tent on Saturday afternoon.
“Uplifting” fRoots
www.batanaimarimba.com
Richard
Berry
Lively
performance style drawing on his theatre background and
love of Music Hall. Hosts the popular Ceilidh sessions
in The People’s Palace – drop in and tell one…...
Lynne
Denman
Welsh singer
with repertoire deeply rooted in the traditions of the
Celtic countries; performing ‘The Story of Branwen’,
from The Mabinogion, with storyteller Michael Harvey.
Malcolm Green
Has been
leading workshops and walks on storytelling and the
environment for the past 20 years, a founder member of A
Bit Crack, North East Storytellers, based in Newcastle.
Green Ginger
‘Gaston Le
Gouache – Pavement Artist’
Classic street
show from award-winning theatre group, has been
performed in 12 languages across four continents. With
his instant caricatures and pencil-sharp wit, Gaston can
‘draw the crowds’ at any event…
www.greenginger.net
Mukka
(Sunday Only)
Romping,
stomping Eastern European Gypsy music, featuring
extraordinarily charismatic Transylvanian singer Dana
Codorean-Berciu…..
“What an
excellent noise" said John Peel
" high voltage and eminently danceable..."
said Songlines.
We
say they’ll provide a riotous finale to this year’s
celebrations at BTB when they play The Big Top on Sunday
night.…
www.cathorseandtree.co.uk/mukka
Mike Wilson
(Sunday Only )
Professor of
Drama, Co-Director of The George Ewart Evans Centre for
Storytelling at the University of Glamorgan. Will talk
on Traditional Storytelling in the Digital Age….. |
