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Welcome! My name is Barry Patterson and I am an educational performer specialising in storytelling with songs and music. I perform in character, so that my shows aren't just story telling but they are certainly more that just live role play. Here on this site you can find out more about me and my work, read comments from people I've worked with over the years and browse my photo album. I have some stock performances
such as the Wild Man of the Woods which has been
going since 1991 but I also have a lot of other material & I have
done a variety of work over the past few
years, most of it science or natural history related. My background is in education,
museums and site interpretation but I appear at all manner of venues -
indoors and out , for a wide range of audiences. I hope that you find
my pages interesting and will contact me if you would like any further
information. |
Wild Man's tree
song
tune for 2010 & Beyond Teachers
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  A Birch Tree performance
always has a strong start
to get
people interested - often a dramatic entry with music
or song and it
can last for anything between 30 minutes to over an hour, although the
latter is unusual. I am not the kind of storyteller reciting something
by rote (although that is a worthy tradition) and always seek to engage
with and involve my audience as much as possible.
There may be a very clear set of educational objectives or the theme
may be more celebratory - in either case you can be sure that I won't
be sitting still for very long! My interaction with the
audience is often a spring board into
new dimensions of the subject.
Whether the tale is set in Dark Age Scotland or just down your street,
whether I am explaining how to identify trees in Winter or why there
are no such things as giant insects, you can be sure that there will be
a lively mix of facts, humour and folklore. |
