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a Mulla Nasrudin story; Hodja Nasrudin story

Sound recording, stories and song; a combination of bardic poetry, song and music, including praise singing, folk tales and Hodja stories from Turkey, told and sung by ashiks Seref Tasliova and Murat Cobanoglu, as part of the programme The Bardic Tradition, in the Main Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 6th July 1996.

Introduction by Ben Haggarty to Zev feldman. Introduction by Zev Feldman to the traditional ashik or bardic tradition and to ashiks Seref Tasliova and Murat Cobanoglu, followed by bardic poetry and song from both ashiks (accompanying themselves on the saz) combined with Hodja stories and commentary, with intermittent translation by Zev Feldman and another speaker of turkic langauges. Ends at interval break, announced by Ben Haggarty

Ashiks are Turkish bards, bearers of an ancient tradition of minstrelsy that includes singing, storyteling, poem making and inspired verbal duelling. Traditionally, a youth destined to be an ashik would have a dream in which he receives a cup of sweet drink (bade) from the hand of a beautiful girl. From that moment on the young man is an ashik and wakes up divinely inspired to make verses and sing songs in praise of the beautiful young lady who is his muse. The term 'ashik' means 'a lover'. The musical instrument of the ashik is the saz, the traditional six-stringed lute of Turkey.

audience:- adult
language:- Turkish; English
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 35 minutes, 28 seconds

Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around 2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales. Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post (the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995 festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey, Richard Berry and Michael Harvey.

storytelling; singing:- storyteller; ashik; epic singer: Murat Cobanoglu
male / Turkish

storytelling; singing:- storyteller; ashik; epic singer: Seref Tasliova
male / Turkish

storytelling; singing:- translator: Zev Feldman; Walter Feldman
male / occupation poet; musician; co-ordinator for Turkic Languages, University of Wisconsin, USA

storytelling; singing:- Master of Ceremonies; Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958 / occupation performance storyteller; promoter

origin:- Turkey Middle East


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Seref Tasliova and Murat Cobanoglu

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Festival programme

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programming:- Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose


administration:- administrator: St Donats Arts Centre


storytelling; singing:- St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art Centre: Main Tent
06 Jul 1996
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
The Bardic Tradition


gift from:- St Donats Arts Centre


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