Once Upon a Time there will be, there is, there was… a way to sing the stories of the living world to bring wisdom, engagement, and insight to the greater human tribe.
Once, there was a way to sing the stories of our ancestors and honor the living inner worlds of our imaginations; a way of bringing wisdom, connectedness and engagement to the greater human tribe. These ways of telling story, particularly of the oral tradition, have offered breadcrumbs of paradox and a way to remember that storytelling is not just a form of communication – it's a uniquely human practice.
Jeff is passionate about the ritual telling of the old stories – myth, fairy tales, folkmyths – because he believes they are alive and offer an essential and wild human nutrient which has been depleted in our increasingly high-tech, data-driven, globalized, 24/7 world. He tell stories out of great respect for those tellers who have passed these stories on to all of us, and as a reminder of who we are as wild storytelling animals.
Jeff tells stories in the mythsinging tradition where a drum or other instrument is played as part of the storytelling ritual.
Jeff is passionate about the ritual telling of the old stories – myth, fairy tales, folkmyths – because he believes they are alive and offer an essential and wild human nutrient which has been depleted in our increasingly high-tech, data-driven, globalized, 24/7 world. He tell stories out of great respect for those tellers who have passed these stories on to all of us, and as a reminder of who we are as wild storytelling animals.
Jeff tells stories in the mythsinging tradition where a drum or other instrument is played as part of the storytelling ritual.
The Frog Prince
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The Frog Prince story was a core story for the famous mythologist Joseph Campbell. This simple folktale inspired Campbell, and was a source for some of our most influential and powerful ideas we have today about story - “Follow your Bliss ” and the “Hero’s Journey.” What do you think? What's surprising to you about this old, and betwixting story?
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The Schooling of Floramundo
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A drum-thrumming bit of a tale, fraught with parental expectations, a prince and the beginning of a story wound within a story of another story. Featured in the album Wild Minds in Uncertain Times.
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The Turnip Princess
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Historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth collected fairytales in Bavaria, which were locked away in an archive until recently. "The Turnip Princess" is one of the newly discovered stories.
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