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The weekend is a unique celebration, bringing together outstanding storytellers from Scotland and England.
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The event is especially for those who like to hear and tell stories, and enjoy a ceilidh atmosphere, which includes songs and music. Informal and friendly, it will be just the place to encourage less experienced storytellers as well as welcoming old hands. There’s something for everyone – from workshops to storyrounds, from talks to ceilidhs featuring the guests – great craic to be had by all!
The Storytellers
Peter Chand has been storytelling since 2001. He uses his Indian background as a platform for his telling, along with a substantial portfolio of world stories many of them humorous. Speaking fluent Punjabi he performs dual-language stories in venues across the country, often using Indian drumming and Micro Bhangra-dancing in his telling! Peter has appeared at various festivals, including the Society For Storytelling, Whitby Folk Week, and the Festival at the Edge in Shropshire. In 2002 he won the prestigious ‘Biggest Liar In Shropshire’ competition. More recently he has featured on BBC Radio 4’s ‘If The Slipper Fits’.
Stanley Robertson is a master storyteller, ballad singer and piper who learned his skills from his parents and grandparents as well as from other family tradition bearers. An Aberdeen man with deep Traveller roots and convictions, Stanley’s repertoire of ballads and all kinds of stories runs into many hundreds. He is the keyworker for a Heritage Lottery funded project on the oral and cultural traditions of Scottish Travellers, organised by the Elphinstone Institute.
Elizabeth Stewart, from Mintlaw, is one of Scotland’s foremost ballad singers, who learnt her art from her aunt, Lucy Stewart (1901-1982). She is a member of the Fetterangus Stewarts, a family steeped in the oral traditions of the Travelling People. Elizabeth, like her mother, Jean, played in a country dance band; and is a fine player of Scottish traditional music on the piano. She joins us for the Saturday evening ceilidh.
Sheila Stewart is an ambassador for the Scottish Travelling people, and carries with great pride the ancient traditions of her celebrated Perthshire family. Sheila is a wonderful storyteller, a talent she inherited from her father. She sings with great passion and believes in the conyach, the quality of feeling that comes from the heart.
Taffy Thomas MBE has taken his art to the public for almost 30 years: as a street theatre performer and puppeteer with his company Magic Lantern, and latterly as the leading storyteller in the north of England, at pubs, schools, festivals, and on his ‘Stop Me and Hear One’ tricycle. Taffy is a born storyteller and learnt most of his intriguing tales from oral sources.
Thank you to our sponsors
Scottish Storytelling CentreGrampian Association of Storytellers
- Hosted by
- Elphinstone Institute
- Venue
- Woodend Barn, Banchory