‘Im not afraid to fail’ – storyteller Ursula Holden Gill, interview
Ursula Holden-Gill is an award-winning storyteller, writer and educator. Described as a “one woman tour de force,” her blend of music and storytelling is captivating and sparks the imagination. “Ursula is an enchanting, highly engaging storyteller. She takes her audience on an absorbing journey of laughter, wonder and surprise.” (BBC Writers Room, 2015) Ursula initially […]
Stories don’t have to be spoken
Neapolitan Folklore Finds its Way to Yorkshire! Stories don’t have to be spoken; this year Barbarella’s Bang Bang will be bringing a colour-filled carnival of musical storytelling to the Yorkshire Dales. The 5-piece group promise a performance filled with larger than life characters, heady beats and folklore messages. The Bang Bang’s eclectic approach to storytelling […]
Interviews with storytellers – Sophie Snell
Sophie Snell is a member of the Flying Donkeys Storytelling Club. Growing up surrounded by books and stories, Sophie has always known the power of story. She starts by telling us about her early influences. I grew up surrounded by books, stories and poetry – Dad was an academic and mum a teacher and words […]
Interviews with Storytellers – Priscilla Howe
Priscilla Howe is from Kansas City, Kansas, near the geographic center of the continental US. She has been calling herself a storyteller since 1988, when she was a librarian in Connecticut. In 1993 she moved to Kansas to be a full-time storyteller. She tells stories in schools, libraries, festivals, house concerts, juvenile detention centers and […]
Interviews with Storytellers – Hugh Lupton
Tell us something about your background. Street theatre, folk music, writing, teaching, all came together to make me a storyteller in the late seventies. Where in the world are you? Norfolk, England. How long have you been telling stories? I started some 30 something years ago and work in arts centres, theatres, festivals, schools etc. Why […]
Interviwes with Storytellers – Fergus McNicol
Fergus McNicol is performing at the Settle Storytelling Festival 2011. He joins Mio Shapley for Kamishibai Capers and also performs at the Ghost Stories evening. Fergus comes from Cumbernauld near Glasgow and spent a few years growing up in Jedburgh too. He is married to Claire and they have a four year old daughter called […]
Interviews with Storytellers – Taffy Thomas
Taffy is performing at the Settle Storytelling Festival in October 2011 Tell us something about your background. I grew up in Somerset. Then went to college in Dudley. After a short teaching career and then a long performing career in folk arts, street theatre, fishing and storytelling. Where in the world are you? Grasmere, Cumbria How […]
Interviews with Storytellers – Godfrey Duncan (TUUP)
TUUP is performing at the Settle Storytelling Festival 2011. Tell us something about your background. I am from Guyana in South America but grew up in England. I went to British Guyana on summer holidays with extended family and my parents still live there. Now I live in London. Where does the name […]
Interviews with Storytellers: Nick Hennessey
Nick Hennessy is an English storyteller and musician. He will be performing in Tea and Tales at the Settle Storytelling Festival 2011. Nick grew up in north Cheshire, in the small suburban village of Alderley Edge. It’s a place of colliding cultures in many ways, on one side the prosperous thrumming city and on the other a more […]
Value your everyday life, its fascinating
Brazillian storyteller Ana Maria Lines will once again be joining us in the Yorkshrie Dales. She blew audiences away at the 2014 Settle Stories Festival and we’re expecting great things of her at the 2018 Settle Stories Festival. Ana has led a fasinating life. She was born in São PauloBrazil. Her family origins range from African […]