Storyteller Davis Bates will join March 3 Song & Story Swap

[Jeff Lee]

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Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings -- March 2012

Storyteller Davis Bates will join March 3 Song & Story Swap

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

Saturday, March 3, 7:00 p.m. at the The Nacul Center, 592 Main St., Amherst,
Mass (see map).

Guest performer for the March 3 Song & Story Swap will be storyteller Davis
Bates.

Davis has been telling stories for over thirty-three years (longer according
to his mom). Folk traditions legend Pete Seeger has inspired his work and
has, in turn, called Davis "thoughtful, creative, human, and a fantastic
storyteller." Davis's traditional and participatory style of telling is a
empowers and encourages audiences of all ages to take the stories home with
them to share with others, whether he is relating an age old international
folktale, or a story about his grandparents. He also encourages listeners to
remember and tell stories from their own family and cultural tradition, and
to explore the cultural traditions of their surrounding community.

A former Director of the Pioneer Valley Folklore Society and the Leyden Oral
History project, Davis was a founding member of the Western New England
Storytellers Guild, as well as the co-coordinator of Story Grove performance
stage at Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival for over 10 years.

His storytelling recording, Family Stories, won a prestigious Parents Choice
Magazine Gold Award, and was named one of the best audio recordings of by
the American Library Association's Booklist magazine. Davis lives with his
two children in the village of Shelburne Falls, MA, and when he isn't
collecting or learning stories he spends his time working at Dancing Bear
Farm in Leyden, MA, helping to heirloom vegetables and flowers for local and
regional markets.

Learn more about Davis Bates at http://www.davisbates.com/.

The theme this month is Broken Love.

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.