“Escape from the Everyday,” a TaleTellers of East Tennessee State University Story Night, will be held Thursday, Sept. 24 from 8-9:30 p.m. at the Acoustic Coffeehouse, 415 W. Walnut St.The TaleTellers, a student organization within the ETSU Master’s Degree Program in Storytelling, will present this evening of stories from student and faculty tellers hailing from across the United States and abroad.
They include Jui Tseng Fang, who was born in Taiwan and is a former elementary teacher; Kenny Tedford of Dallas, a University of Tennessee theater graduate who works as a storyteller, actor, comedian and motivational speaker; Mary Brugh, who came to Johnson City after living in Michigan, Seattle and Hawaii and who enjoys telling Irish stories and playing Irish tunes on the fiddle; David Claunch, who left the construction industry after 21 years to begin a career in storytelling and who is also known as Dilly Dally, the motorcycle-riding clown; and Storytelling faculty member Delanna Reed, formerly of Dallas, who tells folktales, legends, and historical, inspirational and ghost stories.
Suggested donations are $5 for adults and $3 for students and seniors.
For more information or special assistance for those with disabilities, call the Storytelling Program office at 423-439-7606 or storytel@etsu.edu.
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