Rain or Shine! All venues covered

Featured Storytellers and Musicians:
Barbara Aliprantis, April Armstrong, Robin Bady, Slash Coleman, Jackson Gillman, Sheila Harris, Judith Heineman, Musicians Ellen and John Monten's "No Soap" and The Storycrafters

Everybody loves a good story! And kids and adults of every age will be enchanted and entertained by traditional and original stories related by a host of nationally acclaimed storytellers at the 12th Annual Mohegan Colony Storytelling and Music Festival Saturday, August 11th 2012, 12:30 – 10:30 pm! Beginning with a full afternoon of professional storytelling, the event extends into the evening with the traditional Ghost Story Concert around flickering candle lights. The festival is located at 99 Baron de Hirsch Road, in Crompond, New York – under the shade of a spacious pavilion with outdoor picnic areas available on the pastoral grounds.

Ticket price is $20 for all day and night ; $15 for just day - $10 for Ghost Stories. $20 for morning workshop . Reservations for all segments of the festival are recommended

This year’s event features: The Oracle Award winning Storycrafters; Slash Coleman, a cutting edge fringe festival performer; Jackson Gillman, known as the human chameleon; April Armstrong, NY based actress, singer, writer and teaching artist; Sheila Harris; Judith Heineman, Illinois Humanities Council “Road” Scholar; and The Garden Road Summer Theatre students. Music performances feature Mohegan Colony’s John and Ellen Monten’s hot swing jazz band “"No Soap," and surprise guests..

Additionally, Jackson Gillman will offer a workshop 10am – noon: Storyscaping – physically illustrating your story. Jackson will assist tellers in finding the landscapes of their stories, and help them learn how to clearly convey those settings to their audience. Pre-registration required: $20 per person.

According to Judith Heineman, Founder and Co-Organizer of the Festival along with Ellen Monten, “There is no better place to celebrate the oral tradition of storytelling than at the historical venue of Mohegan Colony’s Martha Guinsberg Pavilion where once upon a time Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson, Isadora Duncan and other icons entertained a cultural centered community. The festival brings together people of all backgrounds and all ages to celebrate and appreciate, through storytelling, our similarities as well as our differences.”

All events are located under the huge outdoor pavilion and in the stone schoolhouse adjacent, at Mohegan Colony’s country setting on Baron de Hirsch Road, in Crompond, New York. The address is 99 Baron de Hirsch Road, in Crompond, New York, 10517, three miles east of Peekskill. Follow signs from the intersection of Lexington Avenue and Townsend Road. The Metro-North stop is Peekskill. The venue is 10 minutes from the train station and taxis are available.

This project was made possible by the Arts Alive program of ArtsWestchester, with funding from the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Click here to read a New York Times article about the 2010 festival.

Click here to read about the 2009 festival or the 2011 festival.

Click here to read a newspaper article about the 2008 festival.