STORYTELLING DINNER
"Two Fiddles"
Spices Up Storytelling Evening
Renowned NH musicians Dudley and Jacqueline Laufman, of Canterbury NH, bring their fiddles and dry Yankee wit to the Corner House’s Storytelling Dinner Program on Thursday,
January 19th. Dudley and Jacqueline, fiddlers and callers as well as storytellers, have toured throughout the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii), as well as Canada, England, Greece and Turkey. Dudley has published several books of poetry, of dances and about musicians, as well as numerous documentary cassettes. In addition to being a Yankee storyteller and fiddler over the past 55 years, Dudley has played accordion, concertina, and harmonica.
In September of 2009 Dudley was awarded the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts – the National Heritage Fellowship. The National Endowment for the Arts, which bestows the fellowships, presented the award to Dudley, only the third NH resident to receive such an award, in a Washington DC ceremony.
Both Dudley and Jacqueline are self-taught musicians, having learned by the oral tradition. Besides storytelling appearances at the Corner House, they appear regularly at kitchen junkets, barn dances, schools, weddings, summer camps, and elder hostels. Yankee magazine recently said “History owes Dudley Laufman a great debt, as do those of us who love to gather and dance and share music”.
Ernest Thompson, New Hampshire resident and author of On Golden Pond, succinctly conveys Laufman’s contributions to New England dance: “I think Dudley Laufman belongs in the pantheon of genuine American artists. He belongs in Franconia Notch, the real Old Man of the Mountain.”
Come enjoy this fine evening of
Yankee storytelling and music on
Thursday, January 19th.
Storytelling dinners are held at
the Corner House Inn each
Thursday evening beginning at 6:30pm. The cost is $19.95 per
person (plus tax & gratuity). For
more information and
reservations contact the Corner
House in Center Sandwich at
284-6219 or by email at
info@cornerhouseinn.com.
