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New video online

We recorded a live performance video on April 21st, with a packed & lively audience composed equally of kids, seniors, teens/twenties, and middling adults. Three cameras captured a single hour-long show, the guy in the control room fit them together on the fly, then we added a couple of sessions of additional editing after the fact. It is being distributed by Channel 17 to cable subscribers in the Burlington area, and is available now and for the indefinate future, on their website and ours.

Pretty soon, we're going to break it up into shorter pieces so you can watch each story separately. But for now, here's the whole 55 minute program. We hope you view it full-screen.

"An Evening of Ageless Storytelling with Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder"

Upcoming Appearances

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Saturday June 7 Montpelier VT Walk for the Animals CV Humane Society Benefit 11:00 - 1:00 Rec Field Pavilion Saturday June 28 Montpelier VT Capital City Farmer's Market 11-1:30 Tuesday July 1 Vergennes VT Basin Harbor Club 7:30 Club Room Tuesday July 15 Vergennes VT Basin Harbor Club 7:30 Club Room Saturday July 19 Tinmouth VT Solarfest 20th year! We've been there from the beginning! Sunday July 20 Weston VT Kinhaven Music School 7:30 Concert Hall Tuesday July 29 Vergennes VT Basin Harbor Club 7:30 Club Room

Tuesday August 12 Vergennes VT Basin Harbor Club 7:30 Club Room Sunday August 17 Weston VT Kinhaven Music School 7:30 Concert Hall Fri/Sat/Sun September 19th-21 Bethlehem PA StoryFusion Festival (Headlining) featuring "Vampire Princess" Sat Oct 11 Vergennes VT Basin Harbor Club "Harborween"

Vampire Princess-- booking for fall 2014

Last fall, we premiered a major new piece, showcased it with some of our favorite "eerie" stories, made a live performance CD, and toured with it around the state. Reviewers liked the show and the CD, and audience response was good.

Seven Days said ..
"Damned entertaining... all were captivated...Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder are simply Vermont treasures; hearing their stories never grows old."

ALBUM AVAILABLE On-Line (including MP3 download) CDBaby.com Vermont Stores: Burlington: Crow Books, Phoenix Books, Frog Hollow Montpelier: Buch Spieler Music, Bear Pond Books, Lyndonville: Green Mountain Books and Prints Direct from us at a show mail order

on this site for tellers, teachers, and enthusiasts.

• Folktales 4U
  • tales with coaching for student tellers
• "Storytelling to teach reading."
  • Tim's Learning magazine article about tough adolescents in a group home
• Health on tour
  • keeping your voice
• Quotes
  • from related disciplines
• Folktale Openings
  • alternatives to "Once Upon a Time."
• Folktale Closings
  • alternatives to "Happily Ever After."
• Resources
  • on the web
• Links & Stuff
• Folktale Category History Rant
• Storytell Listserv help
  • and guidelines (including how to get off)