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Sound recording, story; a folk tale and moral tale told by Sally Pomme Clayton, as part of the programme May Eve performed by The Company of Storytellers, at Norwich library, as part of Norfolk Library and Information Service Storytelling Festival in 1994

Introduction by Hugh Lupton to 'May Night' and the theme of 'journeys into the other world'. Music by all three performers, followed by story told by Sally Pomme Clayton about a milk maid who dreams of a chain of events she hopes will result from selling the milk she is carrying on her head, but which day-dreaming causes her to spill the milk.

The story is followed by a description of a May Day tradition, where milk maids would wash their faces in early morning dew, then walk around the village with a silver bowl on their head in the hope that young male admirers would place flowers in their bowl.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- fair
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 6 minutes, 58 seconds

The Company of Storytellers at that time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton.

The Company of Storytellers (C.O.S.T) was formed in March/April 1985 with the expressed aim of performing storytelling for adult audiences. C.O.S.T was actually formed during a tour in East Anglia by Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Ben Haggarty. The official launch of COST was in 1986 at Common Stock Theatre, London. At this point the members of C.O.S.T were Sally Pomme Clayton, TUUP, Ben Haggarty, Daisy Keable, Hugh Lupton. However TUUP and Daisy Keable did not remain in the group and it is as a trio of storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, that C.O.S.T is publicly known. C.O.S.T was disbanded in 1999, but periodically reforms to perform the Three Snake Leaves. The two seminal pieces developed and performed by C.O.S.T were The Three Snake Leaves and I Become Part of It.

storytelling:- storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers

storytelling:- storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton
female / British

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

storytelling:- musician; storyteller: Hugh Lupton
male / British / English / Welsh

origin:- Europe


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administration:- administrator: Norfolk Library and Information Service


storytelling:- Norwich, Norfolk, England: Norwich Library
1994
festival: Norfolk Library and Information Service Storytelling Festival
May Eve


gift from:- storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers


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