Storytellers Tim Jennings & Leanne Ponder will join May 5 Song & Story Swap

[Jeff Lee]

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Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings -- May 2012

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Storytellers Tim Jennings & Leanne Ponder will join May 5 Song & Story Swap

Please come share in an evening of music and stories at the Pioneer Valley
Folklore Society Song & Story Swap.

Saturday, May 5, 7:00 p.m. at the The Nacul Center, 592 Main St., Amherst,
Mass.

Guest performer for the May 5 Song & Story Swap will be the creative
storytelling duo, Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder.

Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder are among today's finest interpreters of the
international folk tale. Their material is traditional and includes classic
folktales from around the world, Irish and American folk music, and a few
folk spoken word pieces they discovered "live," still in oral circulation in
New England families.

Working in tandem, Tim and Leanne's voices intertwine and overlap in
narrative counterpoint, creating a compelling alloy of technique and soul.
They use Harp and concertina to weave music into the tale-spinning. Humor,
suspense, pathos and exhilaration all play together, with elements of
chautauqua, lyceum, and vaudeville.

Their storytelling albums have received major awards from the American
Library Association and the Parents' Choice Foundation. Their music CDs have
been acquired by the Irish Traditional Music Archive, in Dublin. They
recently contributed four cuts to the FolkSounds compilation album English
International, a history of the English Concertina with some of the best
players from around the world.

Leanne Ponder, in addition to being a performing artist, is an award-winning
writer and poet whose works have appeared in Esquire, Story, The
Transatlantic Review, and other magazines.

Tim Jennings has earned his living as a storyteller since 1979. Wrote Sing
Out! magazine, "From the first word, Jennings grabs you by the scruff of
your imagination and throws you into his world.... He doesn't make the
mistake of pretending to be a storyteller, he simply is one."

Learn more about Jennings and Ponder at http://folktale.net/.

The theme this month is Rogues.

The Song & Story Swap is open to the public, free of charge with donations
accepted. People of all ages gather to share stories and songs that are
traditional, newly written, or of personal experiences. You can tell, sing,
or lead everyone in singing, or request a song or story. Listeners are
welcome.

For information contact Paul Kaplan, (413)-687-5002 or Jeff Lee,
(413)-256-0433 or visit http://www.filbert.com/pvfs.
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Tracy Grammer & Jim Henry will present concert on June 2

Pioneer Valley Folklore Society is proud to announce a special concert event
scheduled for June 2.

An Evening with Tracy Grammer & Jim Henry will take place at the Nacul
Center, 592 Main St., Amherst, beginning at 7:00 p.m.

For information contact Paul Kaplan, (413)-687-5002 or Jeff Lee,
(413)-256-0433 or visit http://www.filbert.com/pvfs.