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
14.00-18.00 in the George Hotel

Tim O' The Oak (Saturday & Sunday)
Tim began hearing stories as a lad in Wales and within his Irish-stock family near Liverpool. Then he spent twenty years as a journalist and editor before the lure of storytelling drew him back. Taking his tales from the Welsh/English borders where he lives, he has built on this stock of yarns with the addition of some wonderful and sometimes chilling stories from the Celtic and Baltic traditions - many of a witchy nature... Attracted by tales of mythological animals, he also has a whole menagerie of stories about strange beasts, and has been heard to say - "When I hear hooves I don't think ZEBRAS... I think UNICORNS!". Tim is a regular storyteller at many festivals, a coracle builder, musician, prankster, player of the Hang Drum and keeper of 2 foul-mouthed dragons, Toke and Smutty...

Tim's website

Dave Tong (Saturday & Sunday)
Known as the Yarnsmith of Norwich, Dave has been telling since 2001, although for much of this time outside the traditional storytelling club circuit, at heritage sites, historic fairs, museums, schools and at music & literature festivals.
From Lindisfarne Holy Island to Glastonbury Festival. From the British Museum to the Ashmolean. From Sherwood Forest to West Stow Anglo Saxon Village and Alnwick Castle, he has travelled the land telling tales. But more recently at storytelling clubs and venues including the Society for Storytelling Gathering and King of Hearts Art Centre in Norwich.
He specialises in authentic medieval and Tudor tales, albeit reworked for a modern audience with the emphasis on humour, interaction and the inclusion of historical research.

Sadly Dave is unable to join us this year due to bad tonsillitis - we wish him all the best for a speedy recovery and hope he will join us in 2012!

Dave's website

Enter a world full of men who might be Devils and Demons who appear to be men.

Widsith & Deor website

Fionnaghal (Sunday)
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.

Sadly Fionnaghal is unable to join us this year due to an eye problem - we wish her all the best for a speedy recovery and hope she will join us in 2012!

Fionnaghal's website