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PROGRAM 4:
Oct 8 & Oct 15   Many Tricksters!
from the San Antonio Storytellers Association

Tim Tingle
(The Buffalo Tug-of-War and How Rabbit Lost His Tail)
Angela Klingler
(Fox and Wolf and Fox and Geese)
Mary Grace Ketner
(Rabbit and Crocodile and Mano Coyote and the Wicked Snake)
Mark Babino
(The Three Little Possums and Straighten Up and Fly Right!)
Ed Brown
(Fox and Wolf)
Mary Locke Croft
(Br’er Rabbit Tricks Br’er Fox Again!)
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Theme music: Special thanks to Petra Koch in Germany (she works with Storyteller Richard Martin), who performed the beautifully haunting alto recorder music of Como Podem from the 13th century collection Cantigas de Santa Maria (copy of Kynsecker, Mollenhauer & Co.). Used on this program with her kind permission.

MANY TRICKSTERS!
All of the stories in this program may be found together on an audiotape called Many Tricksters, produced by Mary Grace Ketner for UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio.  The tape is now out of print, so just be glad you got to hear it here!

Guest tellers...

Tim Tingle lives in Central Texas, but he tells all over the country these days, featured at many school and public performances, storytelling festivals and even the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, a few years ago.  He is a Choctaw, a member of the Choctaw Tribe of Oklahoma, but he also has some Coushatta kinfolks who live on a reservation which they share with the Alabama people in east Texas. That’s where this story comes from: “The Buffalo Tug-of-War.”  Later, you’ll hear him tell a Choctaw tale, “How Rabbit Lost His Tail.”  For more about Tim, go to http://www.timtingle.com

Angela Klingler lives in New Hampshire now, but she is a Texan at heart, at least that’s what her fellow Texan storytellers like to think!  She loves traditional fairy tales and folk tales, as you might guess from her own CD “Faire Tales,” which received a National Parenting Publication Award and was recommended by the Bulletin for Children’s Books.  Here Angela tells two European folktales about that trickster fox!  “Fox and Wolf” and “Fox and Geese.”  For more about Angela, go to http://members.aol.com/AKFairTale/index.htm

Mary Grace Ketner is a San Antonio author and storyteller who presently works at a museum, UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures.  These days, she does much of her telling through videoconferencing with schools in Texas and beyond.  Today you’ll hear her tell a Japanese folktale, “Rabbit and Crocodile,” and a story from the Spanish speaking people of Mexico and south Texas “’Mano Coyote and the Wicked Snake.”  “Mano” means “hermano”  or “brother,” so if these characters sound a bit like Br’er Fox and Br’er Rabbit, well, maybe they are!  For more about Mary Grace, go to http://talesandlegends.net

Mark Babino is a San Antonio second grade teacher who is always in demand as a storyteller at the city’s zoo, museums, and special celebrations, and you will soon see why.  “The Three Little Possums,” is Mark’s own variation on a story you already know, and he tells it like he might have heard his Creole grandmother tell it back in Beaumont, Texas on the Louisiana border where he grew up.  Later you’ll hear him tell an African folktale made famous in a song by Nat King Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right.”  A couple who heard Mark tell this story just recently told me later they wanted to go back and take second grade again!

One thing we want to demonstrate is that stories from all over the world are connected.  That is why we asked Ed Brown and Mary Locke Croft to tell two different variants of the same tale.  Ed was a busy and very active volunteer, singing and telling stories at churches, care centers, and shelters; he died a few years ago, and how glad we are that we have this story recorded to remember him by!  Mary Locke has just defended her dissertation for her Ph.D. in the field of Mythology at Pacifica University, right here in California.  After Ed’s traditional Jewish version of “Fox and Wolf,” you’ll hear Mary Locke tell a variant of that tale as it’s told in the American South, “Br’er Rabbit Tricks Br’er Fox Again!