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SUMMARY:Beguiling for Beginners: An evening of trickster tales with Dave Tonge (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of cunning men\, cunning women\, coney catching\, and all manner of artful deceit. \nThere’s a figure on the road. Sometimes in robes\, sometimes in rags. Selling pots one day\, pardons the next. Potions to pins\, prayers to promises. \nEverything for sale. Nothing quite true. \nJoin us for an evening of delicious deceit with Dave Tonge\, the Yarnsmith of Norwich\, as he conjures the tricksters\, rogues\, and cunning folk who walked England’s roads and worked their craft upon the foolish\, the greedy\, and the gullible. \nThese aren’t gentle stories. They’re sharp-edged and irreverent. The kind of tales that got whispered in alehouses and shared on market days\, stories the common folk told about those who lived by their wits when the world offered nothing else. \nThis is storytelling as it was meant to be: profane\, philosophical\, and utterly compelling. \nWhat You’ll Experience\nDave Tonge specialises in the tales that rarely make it into polite collections. The stories told by the poorest folk – the ones who had to live by their wits because they had nothing else to trade. \n\nConey Catching: the art of parting a fool from his money (and the delicious vocabulary that went with it)\nCunning Folk: those who walked the line between healer and charlatan\, always one step ahead of the law and two steps ahead of their clients\nDisguises and Deceptions: how one trickster wore a hundred faces and sold a thousand lies\nThe Philosophy in the Profane: what these irreverent tales reveal about human nature\, greed\, gullibility\, and the gap between wanting and wisdom\n\nThis isn’t storytelling from a book. It’s storytelling from the road\, the alehouse\, the market square — places where stories had to earn their keep by being good enough to remember and sharp enough to repeat. \nDave brings these tales alive with period richness and wit. He knows how they sounded in the mouths of the folk who first told them. He honours their edge\, their humour\, and their refusal to offer easy comfort. \n“It’s a multi-layered tapestry of the profane and philosophical.” – Maria Credali\, storyteller\,  \nWhy These Stories Matter\nWe live in a time of elaborate deceptions. Scams in our inboxes. Lies dressed up as truth. Promises that dissolve when you reach for them. \nThe trickster tales know all about this. They’ve been teaching the same lessons for centuries: how to spot a con\, how to question what we want to believe\, how to laugh at our own foolishness instead of drowning in it. \nBut more than that\, they remind us that cunning – the ability to survive by wit alone – was once a necessary art. Not everyone had land or title or trade. Some had only their tongues and their nerve. \nThese stories honour them. The ones who walked the cunning road because no other road was open. \nAbout Dave Tonge – The Yarnsmith of Norwich\nDave Tonge is a jobbing teller of tales. An itinerant journeyman who performs at festivals\, museums\, heritage sites and schools\, from Lindisfarne Holy Island in the north to Arundel Castle in the south. \nHe works regularly for English Heritage and national museums like the Ashmolean in Oxford. He’s written three books: Tudor Folk Tales\, Norfolk Folk Tales for Children\, and Medieval Folk Tales for Children. \nBut his real expertise is in bringing the past alive through the stories that never got written down in church records or royal chronicles. The bawdy\, clever\, irreverent tales that common folk told each other when they wanted entertainment that tasted like truth. \nDave can perform in full period costume or ditch the doublet for a fine trilby hat. He’s equally at home on heritage sites and at storytelling festivals\, including Taffy Thomas’s Tales in Trust and Festival at the Edge. What sets him apart is this: he doesn’t sanitise. He doesn’t sentimentalise. He tells the stories as they were told – with all their wit\, wickedness\, and wisdom intact. \nWho Should Come \n\nLovers of history who want the stories that didn’t make it into the textbooks\nStorytelling enthusiasts hungry for tales with edge and authenticity\nAnyone curious about how ordinary folk survived\, schemed\, and sometimes thrived\nThose who appreciate wit\, wordplay\, and the art of a well-told lie\nPeople who suspect that the sanitized versions of folk tales are missing the best bits\n\nYou don’t need to know Tudor history. You just need to enjoy a good story told by someone who knows their craft\, and isn’t afraid to let the stories keep their teeth. \nEvening Details\nDate: Thursday 9th April\n Time: 7pm\n Location: The Joinery\, Settle\, or Online \n Investment: £16 \n“Immense energy and spirit… that’s what gave it the wow factor!” – Marion Leeper\, Cambridge Storytelling Club \n“Your storytelling skills stand out… you share the stories rather than just tell them.” – Stafford Knott Storytelling Club \n“A spellbinding evening… a triumph of memory\, mirth and marvellous mischievous story-weavage!” – Oakham Castle
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/dave-tonge-beguiling-for-beginners-online-event/
LOCATION:North Yorkshire
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Beguiling for Beginners: An evening of trickster tales with Dave Tonge (In Person Event)
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of cunning men\, cunning women\, coney catching\, and all manner of artful deceit. \nThere’s a figure on the road. Sometimes in robes\, sometimes in rags. Selling pots one day\, pardons the next. Potions to pins\, prayers to promises. \nEverything for sale. Nothing quite true. \nJoin us for an evening of delicious deceit with Dave Tonge\, the Yarnsmith of Norwich\, as he conjures the tricksters\, rogues\, and cunning folk who walked England’s roads and worked their craft upon the foolish\, the greedy\, and the gullible. \nThese aren’t gentle stories. They’re sharp-edged and irreverent. The kind of tales that got whispered in alehouses and shared on market days\, stories the common folk told about those who lived by their wits when the world offered nothing else. \nThis is storytelling as it was meant to be: profane\, philosophical\, and utterly compelling. \nWhat You’ll Experience\nDave Tonge specialises in the tales that rarely make it into polite collections. The stories told by the poorest folk – the ones who had to live by their wits because they had nothing else to trade. \n\nConey Catching: the art of parting a fool from his money (and the delicious vocabulary that went with it)\nCunning Folk: those who walked the line between healer and charlatan\, always one step ahead of the law and two steps ahead of their clients\nDisguises and Deceptions: how one trickster wore a hundred faces and sold a thousand lies\nThe Philosophy in the Profane: what these irreverent tales reveal about human nature\, greed\, gullibility\, and the gap between wanting and wisdom\n\nThis isn’t storytelling from a book. It’s storytelling from the road\, the alehouse\, the market square – places where stories had to earn their keep by being good enough to remember and sharp enough to repeat. \nDave brings these tales alive with period richness and wit. He knows how they sounded in the mouths of the folk who first told them. He honours their edge\, their humour\, and their refusal to offer easy comfort. \n“It’s a multi-layered tapestry of the profane and philosophical.” – Maria Credali\, storyteller\,  \nWhy These Stories Matter\nWe live in a time of elaborate deceptions. Scams in our inboxes. Lies dressed up as truth. Promises that dissolve when you reach for them. \nThe trickster tales know all about this. They’ve been teaching the same lessons for centuries: how to spot a con\, how to question what we want to believe\, how to laugh at our own foolishness instead of drowning in it. \nBut more than that\, they remind us that cunning – the ability to survive by wit alone – was once a necessary art. Not everyone had land or title or trade. Some had only their tongues and their nerve. \nThese stories honour them. The ones who walked the cunning road because no other road was open. \nAbout Dave Tonge – The Yarnsmith of Norwich\nDave Tonge is a jobbing teller of tales. An itinerant journeyman who performs at festivals\, museums\, heritage sites and schools\, from Lindisfarne Holy Island in the north to Arundel Castle in the south. \nHe works regularly for English Heritage and national museums like the Ashmolean in Oxford. He’s written three books: Tudor Folk Tales\, Norfolk Folk Tales for Children\, and Medieval Folk Tales for Children. \nBut his real expertise is in bringing the past alive through the stories that never got written down in church records or royal chronicles. The bawdy\, clever\, irreverent tales that common folk told each other when they wanted entertainment that tasted like truth. \nDave can perform in full period costume or ditch the doublet for a fine trilby hat. He’s equally at home on heritage sites and at storytelling festivals\, including Taffy Thomas’s Tales in Trust and Festival at the Edge. What sets him apart is this: he doesn’t sanitise. He doesn’t sentimentalise. He tells the stories as they were told – with all their wit\, wickedness\, and wisdom intact. \nWho Should Come \n\nLovers of history who want the stories that didn’t make it into the textbooks\nStorytelling enthusiasts hungry for tales with edge and authenticity\nAnyone curious about how ordinary folk survived\, schemed\, and sometimes thrived\nThose who appreciate wit\, wordplay\, and the art of a well-told lie\nPeople who suspect that the sanitized versions of folk tales are missing the best bits\n\nYou don’t need to know Tudor history. You just need to enjoy a good story told by someone who knows their craft\, and isn’t afraid to let the stories keep their teeth. \nEvening Details\nDate: Thursday 9th April\n Time: 7pm\n Location: The Joinery\, Settle\, or Online \n Investment: £16 \n“Immense energy and spirit… that’s what gave it the wow factor!” – Marion Leeper\, Cambridge Storytelling Club \n“Your storytelling skills stand out… you share the stories rather than just tell them.” – Stafford Knott Storytelling Club \n“A spellbinding evening… a triumph of memory\, mirth and marvellous mischievous story-weavage!” – Oakham Castle
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/dave-tonge-beguiling-for-beginners-in-person-event/
LOCATION:The Joinery\, Dawsons Court\, Market Place\, Settle\, North Yorkshire\, BD24 9ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:The Silver Reserve - Live Music
DESCRIPTION:There is music that performs at you. And then there is music that finds you. \nMatthew Sturgess\, who records and performs as The Silver Reserve\, makes the second kind. On a classical guitar\, with carefully layered loops and a voice that carries the weight of things honestly felt\, he crafts songs that don’t rush toward meaning. They circle it\, wait\, and then\, quietly\, they arrive somewhere true. \nWe all carry a reserve\, don’t we? Something set aside for the moments when the world sits heavy. A place inside where beauty\, steadiness\, and the particular comfort of being understood still live. Matthew’s songs seem to know where that place is. They are written from it. \nThis is an evening to set down what you’ve been carrying. To sit with music that asks nothing of you except your presence and gives something back that’s hard to name but easy to feel. \nBeauty\, darkness\, hope\, and joy\, all held in the same breath. \nJoin us in person at The Joinery in Settle\, or from wherever you are in the world online. For those attending in person in the Joinery\, your ticket price includes a drink (alcoholic and non alcoholic options available). \nWhat others have said: \n“Songs of warmth and beauty that scratch at the inside of your heart. In a world that sits heavy on your chest\, this is music that reminds you how to breathe.” – Thea Gilmore\, Cooking Vinyl \n“Miniature masterpieces amid towering sonic architecture.” – Louis Brennan \n“Beautiful\, fragmentary songs which slowly dismantle you.” – Seamus Fogarty\, Domino Records \n“Perfectly bleak beauty… a hugely talented songwriter.” – Simon Godley\, God is in the TV \n“Quietly spellbinding.” – Andy Brown\, Soundlab
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/the-silver-reserve/
LOCATION:The Joinery\, Dawsons Court\, Market Place\, Settle\, North Yorkshire\, BD24 9ED\, United Kingdom
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