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| Sound recording, story; a folk tale told by Duncan Williamson as part of the programme The Horse Cabaret in the Big Top at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 3rd July 2004. | |
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| Introduction by David Ambrose to Duncan Williamson. Commentary from Duncan Williamson about the importance of the horse in Scottish traveller culture, followed by story. A story about a drunken minister, and his cousin a horse trader, who tries to sell the minister a holy horse, resulting in the minster's death due to his over-use of the term 'bless you'. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 8 minutes, 26 seconds |
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| Performing in The Horse Cabaret programme were Hugh Lupton, Doc Rowe, Duncan Williamson, Chris Wood and the musical group Toreth, comprising Gareth Westacott and Guto Dafis. | |
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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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Master of Ceremonies; Festival Co-Director: David
Ambrose male / British / occupation Director of St Donats Arts Centre |
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| origin:- | Britain |
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| Festival programme | |
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| Duncan Williamson performing during the festival | |
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storyteller: Hugh Lupton
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musical group: Toreth
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musician; singer: Guto Dafis
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musician: Gareth Westacott
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folklorist: Doc Rowe
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composer; musician; ballad singer; singer: Chris Wood
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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: Big Top
03 Jul 2004 festival: Beyond the Border Festival The Horse Cabaret |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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