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| Sound recording, story; The Tower of Bagel, a combination of music and folk tales, of Jewish origin, performed by the group Tashbain, comprising storyteller Shonaleigh Cumbers and musical group Chutzpah, in the Ceilidh Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 7th July 2000. | |
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| Introduction by David Ambrose, followed by performance in two parts by Shonaleigh Cumbers and Tashbain. | |
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| Tashbain was formed at the beginning of 1998 by a group of people interested in combining storytelling and Jewish klezmer music. The music is played the group Chutzpah, with stories told by Shonaleight Cumbers. Equal priority is given to the storytelling and the music in their performance. Tower of Bagel was commissioned by Festival at the Edge ( a shropshire based storytelling folk festival) in 1999. Tower of Bagel follows the physical and musical journey of a father from Odessa across North Eastern Europe in search of his lost son. It also takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the genesis of the Bagel, 'bread that is neither boiled nor baked, neither whole nor divided'. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 1 hour, 23 minutes, 4 seconds |
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| The group Chutzpah comprised Lindsay Aitkenhead, Jilia Bakshiesh, Jonny Hankins, Richard Neale and Jo Veal. | |
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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:- | storytelling group: Tashbain |
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| storytelling:- | musical group: Chutzpah |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Shonaleigh Cumbers female / British / Jewish |
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| storytelling:- |
composer; musician: Lindsay Aitkenhead female |
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musician: Jilia Bakshiesh female |
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| storytelling:- |
musician: Jonny Hankins male |
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| storytelling:- |
musician: Richard Neale male |
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| storytelling:- |
musician: Jo Veal female |
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| storytelling:- |
Master of Ceremonies; Festival Co-Director: David
Ambrose male / British / occupation Director of St Donats Arts Centre |
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Jewish |
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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:- |
St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Ceilidh Tent
07 Jul 2000 festival: Beyond the Border Festival |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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