PORT ANGELES — What is the Blarney Stone, and why does kissing it bestow the gift of gab?
Find out Saturday during the Celtic Storytelling and Music presentation from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Also discussed will be the myths of Irish heroes and magic.
Admission will be $10 for adults and $5 for youths younger than 18.
The presentation will feature Kate Powers on fiddle and Bill Woods on bodhrán, an Irish hand drum.
The guest speakers are Anne Rutherford, Cherie Trebon and Norm Brecke.
Rutherford
Rutherford’s specialties are original and vintage stories of humor and adventure, trickster tales, supernatural tales and Northwest folklore, organizers say.
She grew up in a small Pennsylvania town, and said she has always loved a good story.
Rutherford is a two-time first-place winner in Seattle’s Northwest Folklife Festival Liar’s Contest.
Trebon
Trebon is a storyteller and storytelling advocate who said she overcame a debilitating fear of public speaking to tell stories.
Drawing upon a large repertoire of folktales, myths and personal tales, she has performed in Canada, the United States, Europe and Africa.
Trebon teaches storytelling classes, coaches individual students, presents workshops for businesses, hosts house concerts for visiting storytellers and promotes storytelling wherever possible.
She directed the Forest Storytelling Festival in Port Angeles for the past 10 years, coordinates storytelling stages for the Northwest Folklife Festival, is a member of the National Storytelling Network and is active in the Port Angeles and Seattle Storytelling guilds.
She is a recipient of the 2015 Oracle Award sponsored by the National Storytelling Network.
Brecke
Brecke specializes in folktales he spices up to make unique, he said, and often brings music to his stories, accompanying himself on guitar, ukulele, banjo, mandolin or mouth harp.
He is a past board member and president of the Seattle Storyteller’s Guild and is the current Washington State Liaison for the National Storytelling Network.
Noted storytelling projects include his narrating for the Seattle Symphony, being a featured teller at the first Powells Wood Storytelling Festival and performing at the American Library Association conference in Anaheim, Calif.
For more information, call 360-452-8092 or visit www.ClallamStoryPeople.org.
