Mark your calendars for Connie’s first storytelling performance in Belfast for the Yarnspinners on Thursday evening, November 15th, 8:00 pm at the Tullycarnet Library on Kinross Avenue. You can contact Liz Weir for more details. Hope you will join us and we appreciate your help in spreading the word to others who might enjoy and benefit from the workshop and performance
Also, Connie will be leading a workshop later in the week called Finding the Storyteller in You. It will be held in Belfast at the Crescent Arts Centre on Saturday, November 17; 10:30 – 4:00 pm and it’s £35 /€40 per person ( or £30/€35 for Storytellers of Ireland members). Payable to Storytellers of Ireland. Contact Liz Weir for details on sending the payment.
Connie Regan-Blake and Andy Irwin co-headline StoryFest at Cookeville History Museum.
Connie will be telling stories in Erwin, TN on Monday, August 13, at 7 pm. It is free and open to the public.
Details:
- Everyone is invited for bluegrass music, storytelling, and picnicking in the field beside Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin. It will be alive with music from the High School Bluegrass Band, storytelling from a flatbed trailer stage and family-friendly lawn games from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
- The public is encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets, a picnic and the whole family. Food trucks will be available. Hula hoops, jump ropes and corn hole games will be hosted by STRONG Kids, a joint program designed to help improve the lives of children in the area and beyond.
Connie is returning to her alma mater for a reunion weekend and is giving a storytelling performance “Leap and Laugh! Tales of Adventure” on Saturday, September 28 at 4 pm in Monroe Hall, Room 152 on campus. Find out more here.
Connie is traveling to Nepal and Tibet with a stopover in Qatar!
Look who Connie met hiking on Frying Pan Mountain on the Blueridge Parkway recently. Her name is Sheila, and turns out, she is an emotional support skeleton! 
Connie and Sheila want to share with you this “spooktacular” storytelling event coming up just across the mountain in Jonesborough.
The Town of Jonesborough, Tennessee is hosting the storytelling event “Brews & Boos” on Saturday evening, October 30th, 2021 featuring nationally known storytellers, Connie Regan-Blake, Tim Lowry, and Sheila Arnold. The event is taking place in the Storytelling Park (behind the International Storytelling Center on Main Street) from 8-10pm. Gates open at 7pm with live music from K.T. Vandyke.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased HERE or by calling the Jonesborough Visitors Center by calling 423.753.1010. A limited number of tickets will be available at the gate.
Attendees are encouraged to come early, grab a beverage before the start of the show, and enjoy live music. Main Street Café & Catering will be serving Depot Streets Octoberfest and Loose Caboose as well as a seasonal cider while concessions will also be available. Guests are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets, ground seating only.
You can find all of the event details on their website: https://jonesborough.com/boo
Here is the direct link to tickets: https://townofjonesborough.thundertix.com/events/191263
Here is a link to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/289803086019813
Plan now to attend the 50th annual National Storytelling Festival! Connie Regan-Blake is performing and has the distinct pleasure of being on stage for all 49 Festivals so far.
On a warm October weekend in 1973 the first National Storytelling Festival was held in historic Jonesborough, TN. Hay bales and wagons were the stages, and audience and tellers together didn’t number more than 60. It was intimate, but something happened that weekend that forever changed our culture, this
traditional art form, and the little Tennessee town.
Connie is giving a special featured storytelling performance From Another Time: Celebrating the Legacy of Ray Hicks at 4pm Saturday, October 8th in the Library Tent – We have been looking up to him from the beginning . . . the lanky 6’ 7’’ man of the mountains, who came out into the world, bearing old-world gifts that have enriched modern lives beyond measure. Connie Regan-Blake first met Ray Hicks on October 14, 1973, in Jonesborough, Tennessee. It was an afternoon that changed her life . . . and the course of storytelling in the United States. The setting was the first National Storytelling Festival. Come listen to stories of how Ray became the face of traditional Appalachian mountain storytelling along with Connie’s personal reflections on her long friendship with the Hicks family.
See International Storytelling Center for tickets and more info.
Look who Connie met hiking on Frying Pan Mountain on the Blueridge Parkway recently. Her name is Sheila, and turns out, she is an emotional support skeleton! Connie and Sheila want to share with you this “spooktacular” storytelling event coming up just across the mountain in Jonesborough.
Get ready for ghost stories, seasonal craft beer, and spooky tunes! The Town of Jonesborough, Tennessee is hosting the storytelling event “Brews & Boos” on Saturday evening, October 29th, 2022 featuring world-renowned storytellers Connie Regan-Blake and Michael Reno Harrell. The event is taking place in the in Jimmy Neil Smith Park (Storytelling Park behind the International Storytelling Center on Main Street) from 8-10pm.
Gates will open at 7 p.m. with live music from regional artist K.T. Vandyke. Main Street Café & Catering will serve local favorites Depot Street Brews and Gypsy Circus Cider while concessions will also be available. Guests are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets, due to ground seating only.
Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 the day of the event and can be purchased online or by calling the Jonesborough Visitors Center at 423.753.1010. A limited number of tickets will be available at the gate.
Connie’s award-winning storytelling recordings including her “Chilling Ghost Stories: Haunting Tales for Adults & Teens” will be available for purchase
You can find all of the event details on their website: https://jonesborough.com/boo
Here is the direct link to tickets: https://townofjonesborough.thundertix.com/events/191263
Here is a link to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/788415535760801
Plan now to attend the National Storytelling Festival! Connie Regan-Blake is emceeing on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and has the distinct pleasure of being on stage for all the Festivals so far. Choose from one, two, and three day ticket options.
On a warm October weekend in 1973 the first National Storytelling Festival was held in historic Jonesborough, TN. Hay bales and wagons were the stages, and audience and tellers together didn’t number more than 60. It was intimate, but something happened that weekend that forever changed our culture, this traditional art form, and the little Tennessee town.
Come early for the pre-festival events featuring singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier who weaves stories throughout her songs on Thursday night. Pre-festival events are ticketed separately here.
See International Storytelling Center for tickets and more info.