Adult Music and Storytelling Performances


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Story and Music Events

photoAn award-winning performer and recording artist*, Edgecomb is known for her original pieces and her entertaining adaptations of traditional tales. Along with long time collaborator Margot Chamberlain she has been featured on National Public Radio and at numerous New England Festivals, coffeehouses and museum series. As a duo, Diane and Margot combine rich story material with an underscoring of original and traditional music often collaborating with composer Tom Megan whose musical theatre background gives him a unique and innovative approach to accompanying story with music. Diane and Margot are not only known for their performance A Celtic Evening that celebrates Irish traditions, or In the Groves: Tree Legends from around the world which celebrates trees and the stories that are told of them. They have also developed performances which revive the older myths told during seasonal gathering times such as Midsummer Magic which focuses on the summer solstice and A Winter Solstice Concert . These performances bring alive the sources of meaning found in holiday traditions. Diane's new performance: A Fire In My Heart: a Storycollecting Journey among the Kurdish People is based on her new collection of Kurdish folktales published in 2008 by Libraries Unlimited.

Every Story and Music Concert contains a full complement of songs, stories with Celtic harp accompaniment and comedic pieces. They are an excellent choice for proscenium settings though they can also be adapted for intimate rooms. Diane and Margot have been featured performers at Charlestown Working Theater, Bread and Roses Festival, Three Apples Storytelling Festival and at coffeehouses like the Me and Thee, Club Passim and the Old Vienna. 

*Year's Best Performance Award from the Boston Herald

"Earth Goddesses...National Public Radio regulars Diane Edgecomb and Margot Chamberlain have elevated storytelling to mythical levels " The Worcester Phoenix

"Thoughtfully composed and beautifully presented...an inspirational evening that moved the audience to laughter and tears and left us with the feeling that magic was in the air." Director of Services, Norman Rockwell Museum