Storytelling HQ - Stories and Music - Dawn Ellis and friends

Storytelling HQ - Stories and Music - Dawn Ellis and friends They give workshops too. Email for info. [email protected]

Storyteller Dawn Ellis and friends - often accompanied by percussionist Tom Morley, Maspindzeli Georgian choir, and other musical geniuses, perform wild tales for adults and children.

I'm back at Get a Word in Edgeways in October - this time telling sacred stories. Tom Morley will be with me and signing...
24/08/2026

I'm back at Get a Word in Edgeways in October - this time telling sacred stories. Tom Morley will be with me and signing his book 'Just a Drummer' on the Saturday. Having seen who else is coming too I think Much Wenlock will be the place to be that weekend.
Just saying

It seems ages ago that we set up our enormous tent in Djema el Fna, propped our eyes open with matchsticks and embarked ...
24/08/2026

It seems ages ago that we set up our enormous tent in Djema el Fna, propped our eyes open with matchsticks and embarked on the marathon of storytelling that won us the World Record for continuous storytelling (86 hours). The rules were strict about how long you could pause between stories and between storytellers, and there had to be at least 10 people listening at all times. It was a beautiful, truly international and sometimes chaotic relay, night and day - but we did it!

It's nearly that time again - we're gearing up for the International Storytelling Festival in Marrakech in January 2027.

Just a thought - but could this year's record be for the most well-rested team of storytellers in the world?

Build it and they will come - It was such fun setting the whole thing up on the Friday of the Cambridge Folk Festival be...
24/08/2026

Build it and they will come -
It was such fun setting the whole thing up on the Friday of the Cambridge Folk Festival before the place filled up. 2 years ago it was all over with the festival - cancelled for the foreseeable, dead in the water. But it has revived, like a phoenix, smaller, more manageable and with (I'm guessing) MUCH cheaper insurance. Because I have now been living in Cambridge for 6 months I cycled to Cherry Hinton - then John Row and I draped the tent with glory and set out stakes in the ground for the performing area.
What a blast!
What a raggle taggle set of storytellers we were.

This was a lovely surprise - invited to tell at Ewen in the normally-lush-but-still-beautiful Cotswolds a couple of week...
24/08/2026

This was a lovely surprise - invited to tell at Ewen in the normally-lush-but-still-beautiful Cotswolds a couple of weeks ago. What a beautiful and gentle time - fusing Persian, Indian, English, multi-cultural offerings, music, dancing and feasting. My story represented Central Asia - a rare Georgian folk tale with gender fluidity at its heart. Thanks to all 🐦‍🔥

t seems that THE hip thing to do in Italy of a summer Saturday is to wander down to a Secret Cafe by the river and liste...
13/07/2026

t seems that THE hip thing to do in Italy of a summer Saturday is to wander down to a Secret Cafe by the river and listen to avant garde electronic music and storytelling. Who knew?
Together we created a one-time-only performance under that sultry Venetian sky. Over the years I've improvised and collaborated with Georgian Polyphony, with Tom Morley on drums, with Bea on violin - but never before with an opera singer - the prodigiously talented and delightful Johanna Moffitt, combined with the electronic fantasies of Barbara Gogan and . It shouldn't work, but it did.
Thank you for a fabulous weekend, it was the best fun.

16/04/2026

When I was an actor I always loved the rehearsals at least as much as the performances - all that possibility, all those experiments, all that fun ... For a couple of years now my partnership with Maspindzeli singers has brought my wildest creative dreams into being. Such beauty, such mastery of the crunchy harmony, such willingness to adapt to the moment!

On Saturday there will be singing and storytelling AND an audience and I will be in Heaven. Happy spring 🌳
PS Do come! Link in first comment.


12/04/2026

Well - this song was wild before, but then Tom came!
I LOVE rehearsing when it's like this.
Spring Fervour next Saturday, wild singing and saucy storytelling.
Come and join the sheer joy and exhilaration
Link to tickets in first comment.

"Dave, you're sounding too beautiful - can you make it a bit - erm - a bit more raunchy? Think Benny Hill..." Benny Hill...
02/04/2026

"Dave, you're sounding too beautiful - can you make it a bit - erm - a bit more raunchy? Think Benny Hill..."
Benny Hill might be going a tad far and we now all have the image of that leer, those fat fingers grasping at ladies' un**es, nicking them from the washing line. We're huddled outside a church in Highgate on a chilly March Saturday, giggling like naughty school children, aware that we're about to disturb the force in this peaceful street. Normally we rehearse inside the church, but the singers who will be embellishing my story have arrived early to run through the cues. There is a trickle of mothers and toddlers leaving the church and we wait before letting rip - we don't want to create a public nuisance.
The concert is 18th April and I would love to see you there. Come and discover how and why this lyrical Georgian story suddenly turns Benny Hill-like - and what exactly was going on with the shepherd's crook as he watched the lady bathing?
Ticket link in 1st comment

Are you in Marrakech this afternoon? Open mic and general shenanigans at Storytelling Cafe - 3pm - all welcome. No exper...
07/03/2026

Are you in Marrakech this afternoon? Open mic and general shenanigans at Storytelling Cafe - 3pm - all welcome. No experience of any sort necessary!

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