Storyteller Jackson Gillman will join January 7 Song & Story Swap
Jeff Lee
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Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings -- January 2012
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Storyteller Jackson Gillman will join January 7 Song & Story Swap
Please come share in an evening of music and stories at the Pioneer Valley
Folklore Society Song & Story Swap.
Saturday, January 7, 7:00 p.m. at the The Nacul Center, 592 Main St.,
Amherst, Mass.
Guest performer for the January 7 Song & Story Swap will be The Stand-up
Chameleon, Jackson Gillman.
Jackson Gillman magically transforms himself into a wide array of eccentric
characters through his many talents as mime, actor, songsmith and
storyteller. His interactive performances are seasoned with skillful
dialect, song, dance, mime and sign language. Shining through Jackson's wit
and versatility is a bemused, warm-hearted honesty. Jackson's humor evolves
from finding that which is funny in human beings trying to be human and
often tripping over their own being in the attempt.
Jackson Gillman has been a featured performer at the National Storytelling
Festival in Tennessee, and has performed at festivals and schools throughout
the country. For twenty years Jackson hosted a summer concert series of
comedy, music and New Vaudeville on Mount Desert Island in Maine. His
recordings include Just So, a re-telling of Rudyard Kipling's stories, and
Downeast Ballads, a collection of yarns and songs by Ruth Moore, Gordon Bok
and others.
Learn more about Jackson Gillman at http://www.jacksongillman.com.
The theme this month is Teachers.
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.