One of the blessings of living in this beautiful place is that we are just down the street from the largest storytelling festival in the western states.
And, we would never have known what we were missing if we didn't have so many creative friends. Our first year there, we had 3 good friends who went, and 2 of them have performed. As a matter of fact they both happen to be in this commercial about the festival.
Randy is the puppeteer with the red puppet. Tamilisa is playing the banjo. And they have NACHOS!! I mean, WOW!!
Actually, our favorite storyteller this year was Jennifer Munro, an intellectual british storyteller whose prose rivals Dickens in its engaging colorful nature.
The most popular teller is Bill Lepp, a local talent who is legendary here-- sort of a Jeff Foxworthy of the West, as much comedian as storyteller, and very entertaining.
Most of the storytellers brought some cultural dimension: A lovely and delightful Japanese woman, an African man, two American Indians, and (my other favorite) a half-Cuban, half-Irish-American storyteller that told half in English, half in Spanish.
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