Good Food * Good Listening * Good Company
in Northern Bruce Peninsula
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In which we tell you about
Country Supper Storytelling Concerts
A Country Supper Storytelling Concert is just what the name suggests: an excellent traditional evening meal followed by first-rate professional entertainment, all in a rural setting. William Wordsworth said that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." Storytelling finds its destination in the same place.
The woodlands and open spaces of
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Storytelling is a joint artistic venture of the teller and the audience. We create the work of art together. Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, the story makes no sound if you cannot hear it.
For you to play and enjoy your part to the utmost, you need a full stomach. Emotion, tranquility, and food! These are the essential elements of the art of storytelling.
And such stories, such food! The best tales and ballads from the classical and folk traditions, Canadian, world-wide, and Voyageur's own. The proud yield of the farms and waters of Bruce and Grey, flavoured and garnished by the exotic gardens of the world.
Each concert celebrates a particular theme with a shaped selection of stories, songs and recitations. Our concerts this year are: Roads Taken: A concert of Journey Tales and celebrations of the Open Road in its dry, wet, slippery and atmospheric forms, with their varying modes of travel from canoe to train to Georgian Bay scoot. Sounds Like a Circus: Clowns and elephants are all very well, but some performers are tricksters and need to be watched carefully. This concert will cover several ways to keep your head in the midst of all possibilities. More details are shown on this year's Repertoire page. |
For more on our general approach to storytelling and the art of creating concerts and events, we refer you to The Voyageur Experience
Each performance includes a full seven-course Country Supper, and a Storytelling Concert in two halves with an intermission, when we serve dessert.
In the tradition of country meals we do not offer much choice in the menu, but if you are a vegetarian or have special dietary needs, you need only tell us when you make your reservation (or otherwise as soon as possible but not, please, at the last minute) and we will do our best to look after you.
We are not licensed to serve wine, beer or liquor. On your arrival we will serve you a glass of our Amazing Punch, and during dinner chilled water from our deep, pristine well. Before the concert and during intermission we offer fair trade organic coffee (regular or decaf) and a wide selection of black, green and herbal teas.
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We have completed ten seasons, and people have responded with most touching warmth. We hope that our eleventh (2012) season will be just as well received.
The 2012 Summer Season will be organized in this way: ** The Season will open formally on Saturday June 16th and close September 22nd. ** During the Season we will normally be open three evenings per week: Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday. ** We are open to bookings for our Sabbath concert on Friday evenings, but only for groups of 6-10. ** We are open to bookings (your choice of concert) on Wednesday evenings, but again, only for groups of 6-10. Our 2012 prices are (tax included): Regular admission: $48.00; Seniors and Students: $44.00; Youth and Children: $36.00 The group rate is $44 each for a group of 6; $42 each for 8; $40 each for 10. Group rates apply for any group booking at any performance.
We regret the need for a price increase. Food costs are rising steadily. If you like to see things in tables you can see them on our Schedule page. It will open on a new page. |
These fusions of hospitality and fine performing art are, as far as we know, unique in the world. To describe a Country Supper Storytelling Concert as storytelling dinner theatre in a home setting is technically accurate, but does not really do justice to the quality of the experience. Our audiences tell us repeatedlly that it is highly unusual and very fine.
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