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Cow that ate the Piper,
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| Sound recording, story; The Cow that ate the Piper, an Irish folk tale and trickster tale told by Hugh Lupton, in a studio and home recording made by The Company of Storytellers, in the home of Sally Pomme Clayton in London, 1985, for retail purposes. | |
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| Music played by The Company of Storytellers, followed by story told by Hugh Lupton. A piper finds a dead man on the road and saws of his feet to get his boots. The piper seeks shelter in the barn of a mean couple, and uses the boots to trick them into thinking that their cow has eaten him during the night. The couple flee leaving the piper to enjoy the comfort of their house. | |
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| In later versions of the story told by Ben Haggarty, the piper is then visted by the ghost of the dead man whose boots he took. This ending was suggested to Ben Haggarty by a child in a school in Swindon during a storytelling performance there. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 6 minutes, 55 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at this time comprised Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Dasiy Keable. This was the first commercial tape they produced. | |
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| 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. | |
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| storytelling:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad;
Georgiana Keable female / British / Norwegian |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- | Ireland |
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storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers retail |
| storytelling:- |
Brixton, London, England
1985 studio recording home recording |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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