Come and enjoy some of the finest exponents of one of the oldest arts in the world. Settle in and listen as they bring to life tales old and new: folk tales, family stories, fables, recollections, ghost stories, tall tales, fairy tales, and classic stories from many different cultures. Admission FREE.

Saturday and Sunday afternoons 16.00-19.00
in the George Hotel

Click here for a map of Wallingford showing BunkFest venues and the Festival Bus routes

Saturday afternoon
16.00-19.00

Tina Bilbé
Since 1987 Tina has told stories in all sorts of places from schools to WOMAD, building a reputation for telling traditional tales that celebrate women's strengths and weaknesses, wit and wisdom. Working mainly with children Tina welcomes the opportunity to tell some of her bawdier stories to an older audience.

Pete Boyce
Storyteller Pete Boyce is a member of the Southampton Story Club, an active group who hold monthly sessions. He tells traditional tales, personal and historic stories, and performs mimes. He has told tales in folk clubs, at Story Club festivals, at Portsmouth Dockyard, in sessions at Sidmouth Folk Festival, and last year at BunkFest.

BunkFest Storytelling fringe back to top

Sunday afternoon
16.00-19.00

Fionnaghal
Fionnaghal is a storyteller telling traditional tales mainly, but not exclusively, from Britain and Ireland. Some of her tales are true, some said to be true and the origins of others lost in the mists of time. Fionnaghal feels that stories are for people of all ages and she is as likely to be found at a WI as a school, at WOMAD as in a kid's tent. Fionnaghal is based in Berkshire but known in a wider area.

Nik Luker
Nik started telling stories in 1996, having been inspired by a visit to the Beyond the Border festival in Wales. A brief spell as a primary school teacher honed his skill and he went on to tell stories in many local schools, at fetes and various local events. He likes, where possible, to tell outside and has done several tellings at Shotover Country Park, Oxford. Nik doesn't specialise in any particular type of story - variety is the spice of life after all - but he does like to make an audience think occasionally...

See you at the BunkFest!