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Tim Tingle: An Oklahoma Choctaw, Tim Tingle is a renowned concert performer, an accomplished author, and a popular keynote speaker. As a storyteller, he delivers lively historical and traditional stories, accompanying himself on the Native American flute and singing Choctaw songs to the rhythms of a whale skin drum. From 2002 to the present, Tingle has performed a traditional Choctaw story before Chief Gregory Pyle's Annual State of the Nation Address at the tribal gathering in Tushkahoma, Oklahoma, a Choctaw reunion that attracts over thirty thousand people.He has performed in festivals and conferences covering a forty state area, and completed eleven performance tours for the United States Department of Defense, sharing tales and humor with children of military personnel stationed in southern Germany. In 1997, 2002, 2005, and 2008, Tingle performed at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
In May of 2004, Tingle founded the Choctaw Storytelling Festival, a three-day celebration of the Choctaw narrative: traditional, historical, and personal. Joining tribal elders with youthful attendees, the festival promotes the ongoing transmission of foundation stories so critical to the Choctaw community. Stories are told in the Choctaw language as well as English. |
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“Yvonne Healy is an Irish pixie of a performer!” She didn’t simply kiss the Blarney Stone; she swallowed it. Weird Irish legends, outrageous family lore, thought-provoking adult fare, or participatory kids’ tales: this diversely talented storyteller-writer opens windows to life, as real and touching as it gets. Funny, too! |
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Blarney & Beyond! Professional performer for 40 years, Yvonne Healy was born across the water. She grew up on an American Main Street with Irish language, stories and culture. The inherited gene for adventure led Healy to graduate from Swarthmore College, spend half-a-life acting in New York’s soap operas and theaters, summer in yoga ashrams, and always to tell stories. These days, Healy incarnates ‘Midwest Nice’ with longtime husband, 2 teenage daughters, and 2 fluffy dogs on a Michigan lakeshore.
Comic or haunting, Yvonne’s unique tales from Irish myth, folk life and history especially delight all ages. Some are her parents’ bedtime tales recorded in the Irish National Folklore Archive. Others are family stories with their first-hand accounts of the birthing of a new nation and the withering of the old.
Websites: www.yhealy.com and www.MichiganStoryteller.com
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