I’m heading off to Greenbrae Primary School tomorrow to tell stories to P5/6 as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival’s 2022 Story Ripple. ( #SISFStoryRipple)

Their current theme is “Could You Be An Artist,” so I’m going to be telling them some of the stories I learned from the wonderful Stanley Robertson.

Stanley was a storyteller, ballad singer, piper and an inspiration to anyone who wanted to learn the tales and songs he taught. He was a Scottish Traveller and spent many years as a fish filleter in Aberdeen before writing 7 books of his stories in Scots, Doric and Cant as well as traveling the world telling his tales.

I was privileged to learn many of the songs and stories he shared and here’s a photo from May 2009 of the last time I shared a stage with him. I’m looking forward to sharing some of my favourites that I learned from Stanley with the pupils 🙂