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Cap of Rushes
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| Sound recording, story; Cap of Rushes, a verison of the Cinderella story from Britain, told by Nick Hennessey, as part of the programme Rambling House, in the Ceilidh Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 3rd July 1999. | |
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| Call and reponse, followed by story told by Nick Hennessey. A rich man had three daughters, the youngest of whom he loved more than the others. So he gave that daughter three dresses, one of silver, one of gold and one made of feathers of all the birds of the world. One day he asks his daughters how much they love him and her answer is that she loves him more than meat loves salt. He misunderstands her declaration of love and throws her out. She makes herself a cap-of-rushes. She finds work in a palace kitchen. When feasts are arranged at the palace cap-of-rushes, she attends the ball dressed in each of the three dresses in turn and dances with the squire of the household. On the last night the squire gives her a gold ring, but she does not reveal her identity to him. The squire fails to find the girl and starves himself. The girl places the ring into a bowl of soup made for the squire, which he eats and discovers the identity of the girl and marries her. For the wedding feast she asks the cook to cook the meat without any salt, all the guests complain except for one man who realises his error, and is reunited with his daughter. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | incomplete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 10 minutes, 9 seconds |
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| Performing in the Rambling House programme were Nick Hennessey, Michael Harvey, Sheila Stewart and Eddie Lenihan. | |
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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; musician; singer: Nick Hennessey male / British |
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| origin:- | Britain |
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| festival programme | |
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Eddie Lenihan
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storyteller: Michael Harvey
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storyteller; ballad singer; singer: Sheila Stewart
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| programming:- |
Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Ceilidh Tent
03 Jul 1999 festival: Beyond the Border Festival Rambling House |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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