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Blam Blam Sinday Dido
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| Sound recording, story; Blam Blam Sinday Dido a Maroon and Afro-Caribbean wonder tale and aetiological or how and why story, told by Jan Blake at The Crick Crack Club at The Old Farm House Pub, Kentish Town, London 17th February 1993 | |
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| Comment about Ananse's limp and his lisp and how Ananse stories are told in Jamaica, followed by introduction to and story told by Jan Blake, with reference to Maroon culture. A story about a couple with three sons. One day the family's fire goes out and the youngest son goes to collect fire. He travels into the woods, where he sees a witch conjuring food from her body for people to eat. The youngest son collects fire from the witch and returns home where he becomes ill. The following day the witch appears as a young women and takes the youngest son as her husband. As he leaves, the youngest son tells his mother to set three bowls of water in front of his dogs (Blam Blam, Sinday and Dido) and if she sees the water change into blood, to release the dogs. The youngest son and his wife the witch journey together. The witch conjures an apple tree and asks the youngest son to climb it to pick her an apple. Once he is up the tree, the witch conjures wood-cutters to cut down the tree, and a battle of magic between the two begins. Back at the youngest son's home the water in the dog's bowls turns to blood and his mother releases the dogs. The dogs run to the tree where their master is trapped, they kill the witch and the wood-cutters, and the youngest sons scatters the pieces of the witch's body across the ground, where they grow into nettles and stinging plants. | |
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| Programme note reads - The ever popular Jan Blake will have just got back from a field trip collecting Jamaican song and story. Expect a lively evening of field recordings and her own retellings of the new material she has found. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 10 minutes, 32 seconds |
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| This is one of a series of recordings made by Marc Jobst to create a pilot of a series of radio programmes entitled Cracking Tales for broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Pilots were made, but the programme was never broadcast. | |
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| The Crick Crack Club was founded by Ben Haggarty in 1987 and was the first regular performance storytelling club to be established in the UK. From the outset, the club operated with a programme of storytellers put in place by an artistic director, Ben Haggarty. It had no 'floor spots' whereby anyone had the opportunity to tell stories. The club was created in response to a recognised need for there to be sufficient UK storytellers to perform competent, formal evening shows for adult audiences in the proposed 1989, 15 day long, Third International Storytelling Festival at London's South Bank Centre. In the autumn of 1987 the first season of 26 weekly Crick Crack Club events was launched in a pub theatre (The Chair) in Ladbrook Grove, with the expressed aim of trying out new artists and providing an opportunity for established artists to develop their skills and repertoire for adults. Jenny Pearson of the Kew Storytellers helped Ben Haggarty with the organisation of this first season.The Crick Crack Club promoted weekly events in various venues in London between 1987 and 1995, and then monthly events at the Spitz from 1995 to 2001. During this time it also organised numerous monthly events and mini-festivals in regional arts venues throughout England. In 1991/92 wth £10,000 from the Arts Council Literature department it tried to establish a touring circuit promoting 120 events in a year. Daniel Morden gave invaluable administrative support during this period. In 1993, in partnership with David Ambrose of St. Donats Arts Centre in Wales, the Crick Crack Club Club created the Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing. Ben Haggarty co-directed Beyond the Border from 1993 to 2005. Since 2001 the Crick Crack Club has worked on a peripatetic basis, programming in various venues and in partnership with various organisations, and in 2003 began a long-term partnership with Barbican Education in London, to promote 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Jan Blake female / British Jamaican / African Caribbean / British / born 18.03.1964 |
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| origin:- |
Jamaica
Maroon Afro-Caribbean |
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| Crick Crack Club season flyer and event listing | |
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| use:- |
BBC Radio 4 Marc Jobst radio broadcast pilot |
| administration & programming:- |
administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club administrator; programmer; Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty |
| storytelling:- |
Kentish Town, London, England: The Old Farm House Pub
17 Feb 1993 storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club public performance: Traveller's Tales 3. with Jan Blake radio production |
| gift from:- |
Marc Jobst |
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