Village Storytelling Centre VSF16: Sang & Clatter feat. A Circumnavigation
Sat 26 March 2016
Sang and Clatter
The Village Storytelling Festival final night is a very special treat.
We have an extended length Sangs An' Clatter storytelling ceilidh, featuring our fabulous new festival commission A Circumnavigation, by Ian Stephen, Pete Urpeth and Christine Morrison.
Sangs an' Clatter, everyone’s favourite Glasgow-based peripatetic storytelling evening, will run from 7pm to 11pm with two breaks framing A Circumnavigation (showing from 8.15pm to 9.15pm). Your host, as always, is the ever genial gentleman raconteur and Village Storyteller, Daniel Serridge. This time we're having a big shindig to celebrate our fifteenth birthday, featuring stories and songs from a whole host of performers who have all been part of our past, present and future.
We're delighted to welcome Kittlinclapperdin who will be our house band for the night. Called after the witches secret name, it's what they used to call gossips. A melodic purring of Lisa Petticrew on fiddle, quivers the Celtic gene in aw a Jeanie Tamson's bairns. Whilst Katherine McLeod's flute playing massages yer soul and the stories, poetry and song of Lesley O'Brien will tinker wi' yer heart.
We'll also be treated to stories from master storyteller David Campbell, internationally renowned ambassador of Scottish and Celtic story and Gary Cordingley, an energetic storyteller who draws upon his background in street theatre to give his tales a unique spin. We've got some other surprises up our sleeves, so put on your party frock, step into your dancing shoes and prepare yourself for a birthday party. We promise it’ll be better than when you turned fifteen. And so say all of us…
A Circumnavigation
According to Donald Morrison, a Stornoway cooper who transcribed many of the stories which were spoken around Stornoway harbour in the early 1800s, the Steward of St Kilda once set out for the archipelago with his wife aboard a simple sailing vessel. That crossing was only the start of a series of adventures and strandings which amount to a Hebridean Odyssey. This unintended circumnavigation of Lewis and Harris drives the narrative for a series of linked tales with piano accompaniment. The scenes will be set by projected images of the Outer Hebrides.
