2010 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 2010 Featured Teller below and find out more! |
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Charlotte Blake Alston
With a warm, elegant and commanding voice, storyteller and singer Charlotte Blake Alston breathes life, infectious energy and inspiration into traditional and contemporary African and African American stories and...
Patrick Ball
Patrick Ball is one of the premier Celtic harp players in the world and a captivating spoken word artist. In playing the ancient, legendary brass-strung harp of Ireland with its crystalline, bell-like voice and performing...
Donald Davis
Donald Davis was born in a Southern Appalachian mountain world rich in stories, surrounded by a family of traditional storytellers who told him gentle fairy tales, simple and silly Jack tales, scary mountain lore, ancient Welsh and...
Carmen Deedy
Best known for her razor-sharp wit and light, entertaining style, Carmen Agra Deedy is an award-winning recording artist and children’s book author. Born in Cuba, she immigrated with her family to Georgia during...
Eth-Noh-Tec
Nancy Wang and Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo compose Eth-Noh-Tec, a kinetic story theater company that weaves together spoken word, music, dance and rhythmic dialogue to bring together the distinctive cultural elements of the East and West.
Andy Offutt Irwin
With a silly putty voice, hilarious stories, astonishing mouth noises and arguably the greatest whistle in the world, Andy Offutt Irwin is equal parts mischievous schoolboy and the Marx Brothers, peppered...
Kevin Kling
Kevin Kling, best known for his popular commentaries on NPR’s All Things Considered and his storytelling stage shows, delivers hilarious, often tender stories. His autobiographical tales, born of the Midwest, are as...
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. A five-time champion of the West Virginia Liars’ Contest, Lepp's tales often...
Rafe Martin
Rafe Martin’s stories breathe life into both the universal and personal, uniting old wisdom traditions and daily life with a Zen ‘kick.’ Martin grew up on his father’s tales of flying the “Hump” in WWII, his mother’s fairytales...
John McCutcheon
Folk music’s renaissance man, incredible instrumentalist, powerful singer-songwriter, storyteller, activist and author, John McCutcheon is an award-winning recording artist with a...
Bill Miller
New Voice
With a 35-year career as an award-winning singer and songwriter, Bill Miller’s music is as true to his American roots as it is inspirational to his audience. An acknowledged master of the Native American flute...
Jay O’Callahan
Jay O’Callahan takes a bare stage and single-handedly transforms it into a dynamic and sensitive world filled with compelling characters. He has performed his stories at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, London’s National Theatre...
Michael Parent
From New England to New Zealand, Michael Parent has been telling stories and singing songs since 1977. A native Mainer of French-Canadian descent, he tells folk and original stories and sings a variety of songs, traditional and otherwise...
Abbi Patrix
International New Voice
For decades, Abbi Patrix has been exploring the art of storytelling through theater, music and movement. He is Artistic Director of the Compagnie du Cercle, a company of musicians, storytellers, actors...
Corinne Stavish
Acclaimed as ‘mesmerizing’ and ‘capturing the hearts and minds of audiences,’ Corinne Stavish specializes in personal narratives and biblical interpretive tales that are warm and witty, powerful and poignant...
Kim Weitkamp
New Voice
Kim Weitkamp is an award-winning storyteller, humorist, singer and songwriter who shares her original stories and songs at theaters and festivals throughout the U.S. With a commanding presence, impeccable...
Suzi “Mama” Whaples
New Voice
Suzi Whaples’s tales are as authentically Appalachian as she is. With a totally unaffected dialect, lightning quick wit and a gentle demeanor, she blends Appalachian myth, legend and culture together with stories of her life...
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.
Diane Wolkstein
Diane Wolkstein enters and speaks from the heart of each story she tells. She is known for her meticulous research and great range. Wolkstein is the author of twenty-three award-winning books of mythology which...
