Songs & Rhymes @ The Ship Pub!
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Join your host Colin Urwin (Northern Ireland) and storytellers Jodee Richardson, Dave Penny and Marion Counsel for a wonderful and energetic night of stories and rhymes at the legendary Ship Inn Pub! Proudly presented by the St. John’s Storytelling Festival
$10 cash, debit or credit at the door.
About Colin Urwin:
Steeped for a lifetime in the language, folklore and traditions of his beloved Glens of Antrim, Colin has long been exposed to traditional Irish and Scottish music, song and story.
He regularly appears at local storytelling and music events for schools, libraries, a wide range of community groups, and at international storytelling festivals and conferences all over the world.
In recent years, Colin has worked closely on a variety of exciting artistic community projects with the Armstrong Storytelling Trust led by world-renowned storyteller Liz Weir MBE. For more than two decades he has been the caller and singer in ‘Haste to the Wedding’ ceilidh band, who are always in great demand all over Ireland and further afield. He is also a founding member of the storytelling group Dalriada Legends.
He serves on the committees of the Glens Storytelling Festival and the Storytellers of Ireland. He is also the Storyteller in Residence for The Waterways Community; a charitable social enterprise creating opportunities for people, schools, businesses and organizations in Northern Ireland.
About Jodee Richardson:
Jodee Richardson is one Newfoundland’s most diverse performers. A renowned songwriter, actor and playwright, Jodee enjoys traveling the province and writing about the people he meets in the places he’s been. A story collector who sings songs when people tell him to stop talking.
About Dave Penny:
One of the proud members of From Stage to Stage, Dave Penny has written several comedy songs such as Johnny Chrome and A Townie Courted a Bayman’s Daughter, and enjoys poking fun at the more trivial events in life. He has performed in many Newfoundland and Labrador towns and festivals, the Mariposa Folk Festival in Ontario, and parts of New England.
His second recording, All Turned Around, was nominated for a 2017 MusicNL award for Celtic/Traditional Artist of the Year and a 2017 Canadian Folk Music Award for Traditional Singer of the Year.
About Marion Counsel:
Marion Counsel grew up on Red Island, Placentia Bay. She was a teenager when her family resettled in the town of Placentia during the “Resettlement Program” of the 1960’s.
Marion has written many recitations, stories and songs about these experiences, mainly as a keepsake for her son Michael, but also, to help preserve her memories of outport life in Newfoundland and Labrador.
She has compiled her work and created “Red Island – Resettlement Girl” and has performed it in many venues on the Avalon Peninsula.
