Mystery in the mundane

The Alden Biesen festival in Belgium was brilliant. Weird, but brilliant.

We were sitting at the back of a theatre, waiting for Daniel Morden to come onstage and tell the Oddyssey, when Rachel leant over to me.

"We're being paid for this." She said.

And I suppose technically we were being paid to tell stories to the coachloads of Belgian teenagers, and were just watching other shows between our gigs. But in that moment it was true, and more than that, it was a dream made real.

On which subject, next Thursday is the first gig of my tour with Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, opening in Sheffield. If you have no plans for Thursday and are in the Sheffield area then why not bimble along to the Showroom Cinema, for this fantastic adaptation of the medieval text, in story, song, and the beat of drums. Tickets are £5 (£3.50 concessions) and can be purchased on the door or from the Showroom Box Office on 0114 275 7727. Doors at 7.30 for a prompt 8.00 start.

But enough of me. I can't help but feel that it's time for some new blood around here...

There were no seasons

Good Morning,

It has been long time, a long time, and I apologise whole-heartedly for my absense. These feet, they hardly touch the ground, you know?

Rachel and I are off to the Storytelling Festival at Alden Biesen in Belgium tomorrow. A wonderful example of the doors that Young Tongues open, we were booked after one of the organisers saw us perform at the Beyond The Border festival last summer.

Here are Rachel and I at this years Young Storytellers contest, looking shifty.



And if you listen here, you can here Rachel giving you a tantalising taste of the Persephone myth, recorded for BBC radio.

You can now find the gallery of photos from The Young Storyteller of the Year Award 2008 at our web page Here!

Enjoy!

from

Fiona