2009 Featured Tellers
Come hear storytelling at its most magical...a three-day extravaganza of compelling performances by nationally-known tellers. Don't miss the Ghost Stories and Midnight Cabaret on Friday and Saturday nights. Click on a 2009 Featured Teller below and find out more! |
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Sheila Kay Adams
Sheila Kay Adams shares stories from the small mountain community in Western North Carolina where she was born, and passes on the rich musical heritage of her ancestors.
Jennifer Armstrong
Jennifer Armstrong has spent her life writing, singing and making music with fiddle, bagpipe, banjo and words.
Roslyn Bresnick-Perry
Author and award-winning recording artist, lecturer and storyteller, Roslyn Bresnick- Perry possesses a unique perspective and voice.
Regi Carpenter:
New Voice
Regi Carpenter is a fourth generation “river rat” who grew up in the Thousand Islands on the St. Lawrence River in Northern New York.
Willy Claflin
A professional storyteller since the early 1980s, Willy Claflin’s repertoire of traditional and original songs includes a wealth of stories and puppet monologues.
Donald Davis
Donald Davis was born in a Southern Appalachian mountain world rich in stories. He grew up hearing gentle fairy tales, simple and silly Jack tales, scary mountain lore, and ancient Welsh and Scottish folktales.
Niall de Búrca: International New Voice
Niall de Búrca, considered one of Ireland’s finest traditional storytellers, was raised in the West of Ireland, a region steeped in Gaelic tradition.
Leeny Del Seamonds
With a face and voice that launched a thousand characters, Leeny Del Seamonds is an internationally acclaimed performer, coach, and multi award-winning recording artist.
Gay Ducey
A storyteller, educator and writer, MaryGay Ducey likes contradictions: A city girl who enjoys country roads; a witty wordsmith who speaks the plain truth; a teller with a preacher’s passion and an eavesdropper’s ear.
Bill Harley
A Grammy Award-winning artist, Bill Harley is a musician, storyteller, author, and playwright who has carved out a reputation as one of the finest family performers in the U.S.
Rev. Robert Jones: New Voice
A musician, storyteller, radio producer, and music educator, Robert
Jones has been a performer for over twenty years.
Baba Jamal Koram
Storyteller, author, spirit drummer, singer, educator, and griot, Baba Jamal Koram, the StoryMan, is a dedicated practitioner and teacher of the spoken word traditions.
Bil Lepp
Bil Lepp is a nationally renowned storyteller whose outrageous tall-tales and witty stories have earned the appreciation of listeners of all ages.
Syd Lieberman
Syd Lieberman tells poignant and hilarious personal stories, identifies with Sean Connery, and navigates the mad world of Edgar Allan Poe as easily as he wanders the foolish streets of Chelm.
Barbara McBride-Smith
Barbara McBride-Smith is recognized internationally as a storyteller of time-honored tales mixed with comedic idioms and political puns.
Chuna McIntyre
Born in a tiny village in southwestern Alaska on the coast of the Bering Sea, McIntyre is a storyteller, musician and dancer who uses the traditional Yup’ik Eskimo stories learned from his grandmother...
Jennifer Munro:
New Voice
Born in a small English village where children were seen, but never heard, Jennifer learned the important arts of listening and watching.
The Storycrafters
Their natural, energetic style has been featured in major festivals, schools and libraries across the U.S. and abroad, including the Gimistory Festival in the Cayman Islands and the International Storytelling Festival in Northern Ireland.
Kathryn Windham
Master storyteller, author of twenty-four books, playwright, accomplished photographer and popular public television and radio personality, Kathryn Tucker Windham’s stories are as unmistakably Southern as the voice that tells them.
