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Jimmy
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| a Stories about Storytelling story; Man without a Story story | |
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| Sound recording, story; a version of Jimmy, a wonder tale and transformation tale from the Scots Traveller tradition, from the man without a story and stories about storytelling group, told by Taffy Thomas in the Pavilion at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 2nd July 2005. | |
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| Introduction, including commentary about Betsy Whyte, followed by story told by Taffy Thomas. A story about a man at a harvest feast who is too shy to tell a story and so leaves. He goes to bale out a boat on the river. As the boat crosses the river the man becomes a women. On the other side of the river the now-women meets, marries and has a family with a man. Then one day the women is passing the river and notices a boat. She goes to bale out the boat. As the boat crosses the river, she becomes a man once again. The man returns to the harvest feast and tells his story, and is rewarded for telling the best lie. | |
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| This story is a variation on the story 'Jimmy' famously told by Betsy Whyte, and in the 1990s and 2000s by Ben Haggarty | |
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| audience:- | family |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 13 minutes, 14 seconds |
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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: Taffy Thomas male / British |
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| origin:- |
storyteller: Betsy Whyte
Scotland traveller |
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| Festival programme | |
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| Taffy Thomas in his 'tale coat' performing during the festival | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
| programming:- |
Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
| storytelling:- |
St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Pavilion
02 Jul 2005 festival: Beyond the Border Festival |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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