I’m delighted to be back at Tarland Food and Music Festival telling stories at three venues on Saturday 20th September! Food and Music must been good themes, because over the years I’ve found heaps of new stories to tell at Tarland and they’ve stayed in my repertoire – often becoming some of the most popular tales!
The storytelling sessions are all free, but I’m sure a donation into the donation bucket wouldn’t go amiss! 🙂
Here are the details –
SATURDAY 20 SEPT 11–11.45am | Upper Hall | Free 12.30-1pm | Community Garden 1.30-2pm | The Pavilion
Here I am playing catchy up with the socials again!!
This time I’m catching up from last weekend where Sheena Blackhall and I were telling stories at the Portsoy Haal!
We had a hurley up on Thursday afternoon so we’d be up nice and early to visit local schools – stories and songs all the way!
On Friday morning we had a lovely visit to Macduff Primary School where some of the loons and quines surprised us by reciting a couple of poems – Snailie and Meg the Midgie – written by Sheena and masel respectively Wonderful!
Then it was on to Portsoy Primary School where the P1s and 2s joined in with songs and had a whale of a time!
On Friday evening it was the late night session with loads of contributions from the floor. Some affa spooky! Of course i forgot to take photos the entire weekend, so thanks Tattie for taking this one!
On Saturday we had a well attended workshop in the grain store – some grand songs and rhymes produced by all attending!
Saturday afternoon I have to mention the participation in the Greig Duncan competition. Bill Gray came first with his rendition of the Hairst o Rettie, Sheena came second with The Dottered Auld Carle and oor Tattie (aka Natalie Chalmers) came third with the Butchers Boy.
(With Wee Imp listening to the lyrics and looking shocked )
Wee Imp and I entered as a duo and sang the Bonnie Ship the Diamond which earned her the Junior trophy (which we didn’t know existed!) Will share some photographs from that later
Finally we had a braw storytelling session on Sunday morning ootside the grain store (not the original plan, but the weather was beautiful and the audience did well with rocks and mossy humpties down by the harbour for seats!)
(Oh and Wee Imp and I managed a brief dip in the harbour afore the heavens opened!!)
Thankyou so much Portsoy Haal for having us both along to tell stories for a second year – we had a wonderful time!!
Well that was a fun week for the SC&T Youth tutors at St Peter’s Primary School in Aberdeen!
P4, 5 and 6 pupils learned clasarch, guitar, whistle, and Scots song every morning, with a concert on Friday where they were able to show off the tunes and songs they’d learned to the rest of the school and their teachers. P4 and 5 instruments would accompany the P6 singers, for example.
Here’s a photo of P6 enjoying a video of Joe Aitken singing the Barnyards of Delgaty – they were all singing along within a couple of choruses! I was especially impressed with their pronunciation of all the Doric words which were new to almost all the pupils.
One of the P6 girls drew this amazing portrait of me! – I love it when pupils do that! There are some amazing details in there – I’m particularly loving the duck earrings!
I’m really looking forward to next week when we’ll be sharing songs and tunes with the pupils of Riverbank Primary School.
Wonderful!
Of course i forgot to take photos the entire weekend, so thanks Tattie for taking this one!
Pauline Cordiner - Scottish Storyteller 