Seta's Armenian Blog: Wales International Storytelling Festival - with Armenian story & music content: 2-4 July 2010‏

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Performers for 2010 include:

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Storytellers...

United Kingdom

Ben Haggarty

(Fri/Sat only)

Performing Gilgamesh – epic of the mythological Sumerian hero-king, with musician Manya Maratou

www.crickcrackclub.com

Jan Blake

with Kouame Sereba
A West African double-bill - Kirama & Kankejan, from the Sundiata epic, plus West African wonder tale The Girl & the Snake

www.crickcrackclub.com

Michael Harvey

Hunting The Giants Daughter – the Arthurian story of Culhwch & Olwen, performed with singer Lynne Denman and composer/musician Stacey Blythe

Peiriau/Cauldrons – collaborating with archeologists from National Museum of Wales, filmmaker Sean Harries and ambient guitarist Jim Brooks to explore the world of The Tale of Branwen

www.michaelharvey.org

Xanthe Gresham

Hecate Tango, Aphrodite & The Real Red Shoes, Inanna Banana - her distinctive update on the ancient goddesses of Greece and Mesopotamia

www.xanthegresham.co.uk

Daniel Morden

Performances include telling Sleeping Beauty alongside the beautiful Greek myth of Alcestis with fiddle player Oli Wilson Dickson and jazz guitarist Dylan Fowler (fri only)

http://www.fiddle.org.uk/sleepingbeauty

Hugh Lupton

Performances include The Homing Stone - the story of Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome and his epic flight across Bolshevik Russia (Sun only)

www.hughlupton.com

Mary-Anne Roberts

Performing stories from the Old and the New Worlds stitched together with Welsh and Trinidadian folk music (Sun only)

Atinuke

performances include stories from her childrens books featuring Anna Hibiscus

www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Atinuke-5024.aspx

United Kingdom continued...

Cath Little, Anna Podesta, Farah Morely
Stories, songs and puppetry for Under 5’s in The Early Years Yurt.

www.cathlittle.co.uk

Italy

Sergio Diotti

Performances include Pulcinella in Persia - adventures of one of the great characters of commedia dell’arte, performed with puppeteer Luca Ronga.

www.arrivanodalmare.it/

Paola Balbi

Stories from the Decameron

www.raccontamiunastoria.com/

Canada

Melanie Ray

Canadian storyteller brings the love story of Tristan & Isuelt back to its ancient British roots

www.melanieray.ca

Egypt

Chirine El Ansary

Stories from The Arabian Nights with leading Egyptian storyteller

Turkey

Seref Tasliova

Performing stories and songs from the Turkish epic tradition, with Serap Guven and Vergine Gulbenkian.

Serap Guven

Songs, stories and dances from Turkish tradition

Armenia/UK

Vergine Gulbenkian

The Sound Beneath The Waves – Armenian folktales performed with percussionist Vahan Kerovpyan.
Kearam & Asli - extracts from the Armenian epic, performed with eminent Turkish ashik Seref Tasliova

www.crickcrackclub.com

Musicians...

United Kingdom

Chris Wood

One of our leading traditional music artists – composer, singer, guitarist, violinist and award-winning songwriter. (Solo concert Sat only. Also performing with Hugh Lupton Sunday)

www.chriswoodmusic.co.uk

Dylan Fowler

Acoustic multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer with Daniel Morden and Oli Wilson Dickson of Sleeping Beauty/Alcestis – Fri night only.

www.myspace.com/dylanfowler1

Lynne Denman & Stacey Blythe

Lynne sings, Stacey plays accordion and composes the music for Hunting The Giants Daughter with Michael Harvey (Fri/Sat)

adversecamber.org/hunting-the-giants-daughter.html

Bragod

Duo of Mary-Anne Roberts (voice), Robert Evans (crwth and Lyre) exploring medieval and renaissance Welsh music and poetry, including the Story of Tristan and Iseult.

www.bragod.com

Oli Wilson-Dickson

Fiddle player performing with storyteller Daniel Morden (Fri/Sat only)

www.fiddle.org.uk

Ivory Coast

Kouame Sereba

Singer, percussionist, and master of the Dodo, a mouth harp known for its overtone-rich, almost electronic sound. Performing with storyteller Jan Blake (Sat/Sun)

www.myspace.com/kouamesereba

Iraq

Ahmed Muhktar

Consummate Iraqi Oud player , performing his concert suite The Road To Baghdad (Sat only)

www.amukhtar.com

UK/Gambia

Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara

(Sun Only)

Robert Plant guitarist meets traditional West African musician “Songs that echo the raw exuberance of the Clash, the rolling blues of Muddy Waters and the delicacy and grandeur of the ancient griot ballads. Magnificent.” (THE GUARDIAN)

www.sasamusic.com