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| Folklife Festival 2003 > Scotland > Performers
> Storytelling |
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| Stanley Robertson (Aberdeen) |
| —Master storyteller Robertson
grew up in a traditional Traveller's household. Nephew of the legendary
ballad singer Jeannie Robertson, his family is an internationally
renowned repository of Traveller's lore, Scottish song, balladry,
stories, and folklore from Aberdeenshire and northeast Scotland. After
working for many years in an unrelated job, Stanley was recently appointed
as a community researcher at the Elphinstone Institute, University
of Aberdeen. |
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| Lawrence Tulloch (Yell/Shetland) |
| —Born in 1942 in Yell, Shetland,
Tulloch grew up listening to stories told by his father, the renowned
storyteller Tom Tulloch, and other community members. He has participated
in numerous storytelling festivals and is one of Shetland's foremost
storytellers. |
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| Western Isles Storytelling Group (Outer
Hebrides) |
—For several years, Chrisella
Ross of the Gaelic Arts Agency in Stornoway has been working with
local storytellers in the Gaelic community to develop narratives based
on their lives and experiences as crofters, fishermen, and residents
of the Outer Hebrides. She will be joined by Christina MacLean and
Iain MacAuley.
www.gaelic-arts.com |
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