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Ash Girl, The
a Cinderella story

Sound recording, story; The Ash Girl, a wonder tale from the Cinderella story group, told by Michael Harvey in the Tythe Barn at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 4th July 2004.

Boots-stockings call and response, followed by story told by Michael Harvey. A story about an ill-treated stepdaughter who is helped by a passing beggar women to atttend church, where she is noticed by the Prince who seeks her out and marries her, making her a Princess. One of her stepsisters comes to the palace as a midwife and each time the Princess gives birth, her stepsister swaps the child for a dog, so that she is marked as a witch. The beggar women appears again to the Princess and saves her from being burnt alive by turning her into a pig, which runs away. Meanwhile the three children are left in the woods, where they meet a pig who tells them that if they should see a pig's liver hanging on a gate, to touch it and make a wish. The children find a liver and wish for a house. The wish is granted and the three children live there, until one day a friend of the Prince sees the house and the children, and notices the golden belts which they wear around their waists. He promises to get the belts for the Prince. He manages to get the belts from two of the children, but not the third. The two children who give their belts away are turned into swans, until the third child wishes on a pig's liver once again. The three children then wish for their mother, the Princess, who appears. The three children and the Princess wish one last time for the Prince, and are reunited as a family.

audience:- family
    recording quality
condition:- fair
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 22 minutes, 28 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:- storyteller: Michael Harvey
male / British


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Festival programme

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Michael Harvey performing during the festival

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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: Tythe Barn
04 Jul 2004
festival: Beyond the Border Festival


gift from:- St Donats Arts Centre


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