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Strawberries, The
Sound recording, story; The Strawberries, a First Nation American, Cherokee creation myth, told by Gayle Ross as part of the programme Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross, in the Main Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 6th July 1996.
Introduction by David Ambrose to Inuit Throat singers Nellie Echalook and Mary Iqualluk, Belgium Ethnomusicologist Etienne Bours and Gayle Ross Native American Storyteller. Followed by an introduction by Gayle Ross, including thanks to Ben Haggarty, David Ambrose and other Beyond the Border Festival Staff, followed by story told by Gayle Ross, the end of which is missing.
First Man and first Women live together in harmony until one day they have their first fight. Women leaves and Man becomes lonely. Provider tells Man to go after Women and tells him in which direction she has walked. Man cannot catch up with Women, so Provider puts various fruits in her path to slow her down. Women ignores the fruit, until Provider puts down strawberries. The story ends with Man and Women being reunited, eating strawberries.
audience:-	adult
recording quality
condition:-	poor; fair
completeness:-	incomplete
duration:-	0 hours, 6 minutes, 46 seconds
Performing in programme Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross were Gayle Ross, Nellie Echalook and Mary Iqualluk. Belgium ethnomusicologist Etienne Bours was also present on stage.
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: Gayle Ross female / American, North / First Nation American / Cherokee
storytelling:-	Master of Ceremonies; Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose male / British / occupation Director of St Donats Arts Centre
origin:-	First Nation American Cherokee
	Image of the performance showing Gayle Ross, Nellie Echalook and Mary Iqualluk
	Nellie Echalook and Mary Iqualluk
	Festival programme
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associated:-	translator: Etienne Bours
associated:-	throat singer; singer: Nellie Echalook
associated:-	throat singer; singer: Mary Iqualluk
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: Main Tent 06 Jul 1996 festival: Beyond the Border Festival Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross
gift from:-	St Donats Arts Centre

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