--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you love great storytelling, may I recommend > Robin Williamson? Robin was part of the Incredible > String Band back in their days, and went on to do > his own solo work. He's a multi-instrumentalist > (probably proficient at 20 or more of them), but > he's also a neo-bard, and spends part of each live > performance telling tales. He's utterly captivating. > I've seen him tell a 45-minute story and keep the > entire audience on the edge of their seats for the > whole time, without losing *anyone*. > > He's not Irish technically (his people come from > Northumberland), but his storytelling is Celtic- > based, and quite remarkable. Here are a few tales > of his that I found in a quick perusal of iTunes: > > The Spoils of Annwn > The Battle of the Trees > The Dialogue of the Two Sages > The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal > Three Celtic Nature Poems > > My favorite of his recorded stories is unfortunately > not on iTunes (or at least not on the version of it I > can see from France). It's on an album he did with > John Renbourn called Wheel Of Fortune. The tale > itself is called "Finn and the Old Man's House," > and it's *wonderful*. It captures the entire spirit > of the bardic storyteller, alternating between > laughter and drama, and ending on a spiritual note.
I just Googled the name of the tale and found this site, which seems to have MP3s of some of his tales via BitTorrent: http://www.bitenova.nl/tt/yowk2 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
