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Psalms from the Horse's Mouth
Praise Song for Jenny Wing
Horses, The
Sound recording, stories, poetry, riddles and songs; Psalms from the Horse's Mouth a combined performance of riddles, poetry, folk tales, original tales, true life tales, praise singing, riddling tales, creation myths and how and why or aetiological tales from a rnage of cultures; including the stories Praise Song for Jenny Wing and The Horses, developed and performed by Hugh Lupton and Chris Wood in the Bradenstoke Hall at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 3rd July 2004.
Introduction by Christine MacMahon, followed by performance in two halves by Hugh Lupton, accompanied by music and song by Chris Wood. A combined programme in celebration of the Horse, and man's relationship with horses throughout history and in different cultures. Stories include The Horses and Pariase Song for Jenny Wing.
Praise Song for Jenny Wing was created by Hugh Lupton following the death of Jenny Wing, and was in part, a response to the funeral of Jenny Wing, where the vicar knew very little about the deceased. It is a story based on the experiences of Jenny Wing as a child; the folklore of the horse; a young girl's experiences of horses, their theft and return, and of leaving them when she goes into service. The story uses the saying 'if wishes were horses'.
The Horses is a story about a hunter who gambles away all of his possessions, his family and eventually his own life, in an attempt to win a walnut shell which holds another world within it. On his death, the hunter finds himself in the world inside the walnut shell. Once again he gambles, this time to return to his life. He wins and when offered to take something fom this world back to his world, he choses to take the horses.
audience:-	adult
recording quality
condition:-	good
completeness:-	complete
duration:-	1 hour, 39 minutes, 3 seconds
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.
storytelling; singing; poetry:-	storyteller: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh
storytelling; singing; poetry:-	composer; musician; singer: Chris Wood male / British
storytelling; singing; poetry:-	Master of Ceremonies: Christine McMahon female / British / Lancashire
origin:-	Jenny Wing female storyteller: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh America, North Wales Britain Navajo First Nation American
	Festival programme
	Hugh Lupton and Chris Wood in performance
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programming:-	Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
administration:-	administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
storytelling; singing; poetry:-	St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art Centre: Bradenstoke Hall 03 Jul 2004 festival: Beyond the Border Festival Psalms from the Horse's Mouth
gift from:-	St Donats Arts Centre

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