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Bonny Killen
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| Sound recording, song; Bonny Killen, from Northern Ireland sung by Len Graham, at The Crick Crack Club The Old Farm House Pub, Kentish Town, London 24th April 1991. | |
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| A song introduced by Len Graham, including comment on how he has borrowed from Eddie Butcher's and Robert (surname unknown)'s versions of the song, followed by song sung by Len Graham. A song about love. | |
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| The programme note reads - 'John Campbell and Len Graham are two of Ireland's very finest performers of traditional material. One is a teller of weepingly funny crack, the other is a singer of songs.' | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 4 minutes, 57 seconds |
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| This was a joint performance by Len Graham and John Campbell | |
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| This is one of a series of recordings made by Marc Jobst to create a pilot of a series of radio programmes entitled Cracking Tales for broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Pilots were made, but the programme was never broadcast. | |
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| The Crick Crack Club was founded by Ben Haggarty in 1987 and was the first regular performance storytelling club to be established in the UK. From the outset, the club operated with a programme of storytellers put in place by an artistic director, Ben Haggarty. It had no 'floor spots' whereby anyone had the opportunity to tell stories. The club was created in response to a recognised need for there to be sufficient UK storytellers to perform competent, formal evening shows for adult audiences in the proposed 1989, 15 day long, Third International Storytelling Festival at London's South Bank Centre. In the autumn of 1987 the first season of 26 weekly Crick Crack Club events was launched in a pub theatre (The Chair) in Ladbrook Grove, with the expressed aim of trying out new artists and providing an opportunity for established artists to develop their skills and repertoire for adults. Jenny Pearson of the Kew Storytellers helped Ben Haggarty with the organisation of this first season.The Crick Crack Club promoted weekly events in various venues in London between 1987 and 1995, and then monthly events at the Spitz from 1995 to 2001. During this time it also organised numerous monthly events and mini-festivals in regional arts venues throughout England. In 1991/92 wth £10,000 from the Arts Council Literature department it tried to establish a touring circuit promoting 120 events in a year. Daniel Morden gave invaluable administrative support during this period. In 1993, in partnership with David Ambrose of St. Donats Arts Centre in Wales, the Crick Crack Club Club created the Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing. Ben Haggarty co-directed Beyond the Border from 1993 to 2005. Since 2001 the Crick Crack Club has worked on a peripatetic basis, programming in various venues and in partnership with various organisations, and in 2003 began a long-term partnership with Barbican Education in London, to promote 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre | |
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| singing:- |
singer; ballad singer: Len Graham male / Irish |
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| origin:- | County Down, Northern Ireland |
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| Crick Crack Club season flyer and event listing | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
| associated:- |
storyteller: John Campbell
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| use:- |
BBC Radio 4 Marc Jobst radio broadcast pilot |
| administration & programming:- |
administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club administrator; programmer; Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty |
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Kentish Town, London, England: The Old Farm House Pub
25 Apr 1991 storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club public performance radio production |
| gift from:- |
Marc Jobst |
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