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Sound recording, story; a folk tale, of Jewish
origin, performed by the group Tashbain, comprising storyteller
Shonaleigh Cumbers and musical group Chutzpah 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, 8th July 2000.
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A story told by Shonaleigh Cumbers with
musical accompaniment. Wisdom and luck are arguing over who is
the greatest, and decide to possess a new born boy to try to
prove themselves. They toss a coin to see who will use the boy
first. Wisdom wins the toss and enters the boy, who grows up to
be a fine goldsmith, but when he finds that his boss is taking
credit for his work the young man leaves and takes an
apprenticeship with a tailor. The tailor begins to take credit
for his work, so again the young man leaves. He enters a town
where the King has a daughter who refuses to speak and takes up
the challenge. The young man tells her stories to try to make her
speak. He succeeds and she agrees to marry him, but no one has
witnessed this and so he is deemed to have failed and is taken to
be beheaded. At that point Luck interupts Wisdom and takes over
the body of the boy, ensuring that his bride to be walks past at
that moment and saves the young man from execution.
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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, 26 minutes, 18 seconds
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The group Chutzpah comprised Lindsay Aitkenhead, Jonny Hankins,
Jilia Bakshiesh, 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:-
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storytelling group: Tashbain
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storytelling:-
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musical group: Chutzpah
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storytelling:-
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storyteller: Shonaleigh Cumbers
female / British / Jewish
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storytelling:-
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composer; musician: Lindsay Aitkenhead
female
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storytelling:-
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musician: Jonny Hankins
male
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storytelling:-
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musician: Jilia Bakshiesh
female
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storytelling:-
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musician: Richard Neale
male
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storytelling:-
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musician: Jo Veal
female
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origin:-
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Jewish
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festival programme
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Click to enlarge images
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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
08 Jul 2000
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
Rambling House
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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