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Daughter of the King Under Waves,
The
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an Irish Mythology story
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Sound recording, story; The Daughter of the
King Under Waves, a wonder tale from Irish Mythology, told by
Xanthe Gresham with musical accompaniment by Sherry Robinson, as
part of the programme New Voices, in the Ceilidh Tent at the
Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major,
South Glamorgan, Wales, 4 July 1999.
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Story told by Xanthe Gresham. A member of the
Tuatha de Danann appears as an ugly women asking for shelter on a
stormy night. She rewards the man who helps her by revealing her
true beauty, becoming his wife and granting him a house full of
finery, but she makes him promise never to mentioned how she
first appeared to him. The man breaks the promise and loses the
finery and the women. The man goes on a journey to find his lost
bride. On his journey he gains a companion who helps him gain a
magical sword. When he finds the women again they battle, each
with a magical sword, and he wins her back.
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audience:-
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adult
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 16 minutes, 53 seconds
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Performing in the New Voices programme were Sam Stone and Xanthe
Gresham, with musician Sherry Robinson.
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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:-
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storyteller: Xanthe Gresham
female / British
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storytelling:-
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musician; composer: Sherry Robinson
female / Irish
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origin:-
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Ireland
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festival programme
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Click to enlarge images
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associated:-
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storyteller: Sam Stone
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programming:-
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Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
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administration:-
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
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storytelling:-
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Ceilidh Tent
04 Jul 1999
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
New Voices
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gift from:-
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St Donats Arts Centre
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007