Eastern Coyote ProductionsEastern Coyote Productionspress release
"world tales and celtic music"
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On _________, at __________, ___________ presents Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder performing an evening of storytelling, with Celtic music played on harp and concertina.
Archetypal, compelling, and intimate as a dream, Tim and Leanne’s program is drawn from from the beating heart and dreaming mind of humankind, and is rooted in a time before either stories or music were written down.
They employ a duo-style of narration, words winding around each other like verbal counterpoint. Music infiltrates and intensifies the listeners’ experience. Fresh, compelling, and authentic, Jennings and Ponder's performances are a highly entertaining blend of technique and soul.
Called "two of the best storytellers working in New England today" by The Storytelling Institute in New Haven, CT, the couple performs traditional folk tales, featuring branching roads and transformations; the charmed and the fated; rogues, lovers, magic, and things that go bump in the night. The evening's moods change as sharply and intensely as New England weather, alternating humor, mystery, suspense, and moonlit serenity.
Long-time features of the arts scene in their home state of Vermont, popular in colleges, schools and resorts around New England, Jennings and Ponder have been featured performers at major festivals across North America, and on public television and radio. Their recordings have won awards from the American Library Association and the Parents’ Choice Foundation.
Some storytellers perform children's stories, some specify "adults only." Some specialise in "Women's Tales," others tell "Stories for Men." To this couple, such divisions seem irrelevent to what makes the old stories tick. "The old tales are for everybody,” they insist. “They are ageless, they speak directly to the part of you that doesn't change as you move through your life. As you listen, time changes, and you become ageless too."
Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder
PO Box 522 Montpelier VT 05601
802-223-9103
home page: folktale.net
e-mail: tim@folktale.net