Our dwelling with Mystery is both
menacing and promising,
a relationship of exceeding darkness
and undeserved light.

In this situation with this awareness
we do a distinctly human thing.
We gather together and tell stories ...
to calm our terror and hold our hope on high.”
Stories of God    [Thomas More Press, 1978]
Live Performance!
Enhance your gathering
with musical interludes!
Entertain your conclave
with classic folk tales!
Invite into your exceptional presence
a storyteller and a musician
who may transform you
and your happening
for good!

Carol Jean Rose has spent at least a lifetime
telling the legends of our lives.
She believes that each of us embodies countless stories,
that we unfurl the tightrope of experience
as we step into space,
that the sagas in our cells determine individual courage;
and that each of us is heroic in our unique balance.

With a decade of credits starring
in orchestra pits for musical theater
Annie Welle
gives an instrumental tour-de-force with

a pair of keyboards
magic bells and oatmeal boxes
coffee cans and sandpaper blocks
harmonica and ukelele
clarinet and French horn
nose flute and kazoo
tambourine and hand drums
banjo and bucket lid
silverware and rainstick

The yarns they yearn to weave you
reinforce generosity, loyalty, integrity, intuition, self-esteem, kindness, honesty, harmony, perseverance, patience,
creativity and compassion.
In each, the one who is greedy or tries to manipulate
learns we're here to share the power.

Their repertoire includes:

Tales for the Crones of Our Hearts
Bucca Dhu and Bucca Gwidden
in which the crone in each of us outwits our judgmental inner children

Baba Yaga and the Burbot
a Siberian midlife version of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros

How Felicia Flummoxes The Fairies
in which a Scottish baker escapes the little people tugging at her skirts

Froth
in which an Italian wife leaves her empty nest to join the sirens

The Hedley Kow
in which the wise woman in each of us tames self-doubt

Tales for the Codgers of Our Hearts
The Old Alchemist
in which the inner father-in-law is outlaw

Three Whipper-Snappers and a Geezer
in which multiloquence prevails

Zorab the Storyteller
in which imagination is vindicated

Niggle’s Journey
in which the artist in each of us comes to know why

Tales for the Elders of Our Hearts
Ambition and Providence
in which marital roles are reversed

The Fountain of Life
in which competition evolves to relationship

Stale Mate
in which the game is ended at last

A Love of Labor
in which wishes are horses so beggars can ride

The Council of the Elders
in which our wounds become our healers

“As the French philosopher Montaigne once proclaimed,
‘We are, I know not how, two souls in a single breast.’
These souls are Then and Now.
Yesterday and This Moment.
What Was and What Is.
Surely it is story that provides the lifeline between....

“A story has power over life.
Each telling defines the listener to himself.
The act of listening to a story
is a taking in of the story’s power.
The story transforms, changes and transfigures
the one who takes it in....”
(Jane Yolen from intro to Best-Loved Stories
Told at the National Storytelling Festival)

Carol Jean Rose and Annie Welle
delight college students at cultural forums,
families at public libraries, and
groups which seek enlightenment of all sorts!
Their programs are customized to your occasion.
Come, let them tickle your inner and outer eyes and ears!

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