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The 2007 line-up includes storytellers and musicians from Quebec, Canada, Native North America, Norway, Spain and the UK and features the UK debut of internationally acclaimed French Canadian acapella group Les Charbonniers de L’Enfer …among my ten most exquisite musical discoveries in a good quarter century” fRoots.

United Kingdom

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…..

Québec

Mike Burns

The extraordinary tri-lingual (Gaelic/

French/English) teller returns to the festival with among other stories the harrowing tale of Irish labourers who built Canada's Rideau Canal....

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Les Charbonniers

De L’Enfer

Award-winning acapella vocal group from Quebec's Maudite Memoire tradition

“…among my ten most exquisite musical

discoveries in a good quarter century”. fRoots

 

Michel Faubert

Leading Québécois storyteller from Montréal.

 

Canada

Anita Best

Ballad singer and archivist, Newfoundland’s

answer to Norma Waterson.

 

Brian Katz

Internationally acclaimed jazz guitarist and klezmer teacher, performing European premiere of ‘ Talking You In’ with Dan Yashinsky; leading open-air singing workshop on sacred melodies from Chassidic tradition Sunday morning.

 

Dan Yashinsky

Award-winning Toronto storyteller/writer and founder of the Toronto International Storytelling Festival.

 

Native North America

 

Torin Jacobs

Yupic hip hop musician from Alaska.

 

Taqralik Partridge

Young Inuit singer and contemporary songwriter.

www.myspace.com/taqralikpartridge

 

Robert Seven-Crows

Storyteller/singer from the Mi’kmag Nation.

www.myspace.com/robertsevencrows

 

Sharon Shorty

Tlingit storyteller from Yukon and member of the Raven Clan, performing her one-woman show, Gramma Suzie.

www.sharonshorty.com

 

Joseph Naytowhow

Cree storyteller, singer and drummer of the Pakitahaw Sahgaehican First Nation, from Alberta.  Check out his My Space:  www.myspace.com/josephnaytowhow

 

Spain

Arnau Vilardebo

Catalan storyteller from Barcelona presenting Zodiac stories.

 

Norway

Lawra Somby

Sami ‘Yoik’ singer from the acclaimed young band, Adjagas.

“spellbinding” The Guardian

enchanting” Time Out

 

UK - Young Tongues

BTB showcases some of the brightest new voices on the UK storytelling scene:

 

Joanne Blake & Greg Cave

Joanne has been storytelling since 2000,  Singer/songwriter Gregg Cave first began playing his own compositions at 14; together they've since appeared at Sidmouth and Ely Festivals.

  

Rachel Rose Reid 

2 x winner of Sidmouth’s Junior Storytelling Competition, this year’s Young Storyteller of The Year at Birmingham’s Midland Arts Centre, Rachel has developed a brand of storytelling cabaret, telling folk stories and singing songs.

 

Tim Ralphs

Based in Sheffield. Has been storytelling on the folk scene for just over a year since 2006 Four Fools festival in Leylands. Passionate about weird stories, launching The Room Behind the Bookcase storytelling podcast.

 

 
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