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Sicilian Story, The

Sound recording, story; The Sicilian Story, a folk tale and legend, told by Ben Haggarty, accompanied by musician Sherry Robinson as part of a first half of a performance on the theme of love, at Leicester Storytelling Club, in Leicester, 2nd October 2004.

Introduction to musician Sherry Robinson by Ben Haggarty, followed by a story about forbidden love told by Ben Haggarty, accompanied by Sherry Robinson on hammer dulcimer and accordian. A young holy man comes to a town and asks for a place where he may create a hermitage. The duke of the town, lets him have an island to make his home on. A local fisherman takes villagers to visit the man regularly for advice. The daughter of the duke and the holy man fall in love. The girl swims the sea to meet her lover at night, but when their affair is discovered, her brothers trick her in to swimming in the stormy sea and she drowns. The holy man finds the drowned body of his lover and he lies down on the beach and dies of a broken heart. The two bodies are found, that of the girl, hanging as a skeleton entangled in a rose tree. The bones of the skeleton rattle and tell the tale of family deceit. The villagers force the duke and his sons to sea where they drown.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 28 minutes, 39 seconds

Storytelling clubs operate in a variety of formats. Some clubs provide a place where anyone can come and tell stories to a small intimate and specialist audience ('floor-spots'); while other clubs run a programme of performances by professional or semi-professional storytellers, and many clubs do a combination of both. In 2007 the UK had in the region of 55 storytelling clubs: the larger, more prominent clubs provide a low key, small-scale circuit for storytelling, for a specialist-interest audience.

storytelling:- storyteller: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958

storytelling:- musician; composer: Sherry Robinson
female / Irish

origin:- composer: Sherry Robinson
female / Irish
Sicily


administration & programming:- administrator; programmer: Liza Watts


storytelling:- Leicester, Midlands, England: The Guild Hall
02 Oct 2004
storytelling club: Leicester Storytelling Club


performance recording from:- archivist: Kate Norgate


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