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| Sound recording, story; a folk tale and cumulative tale told by Duncan Williamson in the Main Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 2nd July 1999. | |
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| Duncan Williamson talking about stories, storytellers and literacy; followed by story. A tinker hears that the King has raised the taxes. He camps on the King's driveway. The King arrives, admires the tinkers work, the tinker gives him a lamp, and the King tells the guards not to bother him. Later that night the King finds the lamp is leaky. The tinker is summoned. The tinker blames the ironmonger from whom he bought the tin, the ironmonger blames the foundary man, the foundary man blames the tanner who made the bellows, who blames the farmer who provided the skin, the farmer tells the King that its his own fault as he has taken such high taxes, that he can't feed his animals and so their skins are too thin. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | incomplete (gap at 11: 46 seconds due to minidisc being changed) |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 14 minutes, 56 seconds |
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| 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. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; singer; ballad singer: Duncan Williamson male / Scottish / traveller |
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| festival programme | |
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| programming:- |
Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
| storytelling:- |
St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Main Tent
02 Jul 1999 festival: Beyond the Border Festival |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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