In the Groves: A Summer Solstice Journey
Diane Edgecomb, Storyteller,
and Margot Chamberlain, Celtic Harpist
1 Session (select one)
WAL 224A Fri Jun 20 6:30-8:30pm [HB]
WAL 224B Sat Jun 21 6:30-8:30pm [HB]
Transport yourself to a different time and place with this enchanting evening of tree lore and summer-solstice legends. Diane and Margot spin tales of the human connection with trees and the deep meaning we have assigned to them through the ages. This unique performance, designed specifically for the Arboretum, will start at the Hunnewell Building and continue along tree-lined paths with story and music. The evening culminates with the haunting Czech legend "The Wild Woman of the Birch Grove," told amid the birches of Bussey Hill at sunset. Appropriate for adults and for children ten years and older. Bring a cushion to sit on if you wish. Registrants will walk approximately two miles on and off trails. The performance takes place rain or shine. In the event of rain, it will be held in the Hunnewell Building lecture hall.
Diane Edgecomb is an award-winning storyteller and experimental theater artist. In 2001, she initiated "The Kurdish Story Collection Project," an international endeavor to document the stories and storytelling traditions of the Kurdish people. Beginning by recording Kurdish storytellers in the United States and then abroad, Edgecomb selected and compiled stories in her newly released book, A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales.
Margot Chamberlain has sung and played medieval bowed strings, recorders, and the medieval harp with the early music groups Quadrivium and Live Oak and has performed with the Christmas Revels and other Revels productions in New England. For the past fifteen years she has devoted herself to the Celtic harp. She enjoys the wide range of expressions-from earthy to ethereal, from mysterious to comic-that the harp makes possible. She has recorded on Woodbine, Encina, Sound Reflections, and Living Folk Records.
"It was one of the most moving storytelling nights I've experienced. It reawakened in me, and perhaps all of us there, a sense of the spirit in things." Jay O'Callahan
Fee $20 per person. Space is limited.
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