Folktales from the Forest

Name: Folktales from the Forest
Start: 2025-08-26T18:45:00+01:00
Location: Samuel Worth Chapel

Schedule

Tue, 26 Aug, 2025 at 06:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Samuel Worth Chapel | Sheffield, EN

Storytelling for adults - An evening of folktales and music, featuring sylvan stories from the forest and woodlands of Britain and Ireland, with music and song from Alice Nicholls.
Expect amorous encounters, evil elves, a cute dog, the slightly suspect names of orchard guardians and a heroine who knows what she wants and how to get it.
Delivered by Graeme Cooke, host of the Tales of Britain and Ireland podcast, in the atmospheric Samuel Worth Chapel in the centre of Sheffield General Cemetery.

All tales told with humour, wandering asides and above all else a great love for the stories.
𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬:
Turn up from 18:45 for a 19:30 start. 18+ (adult content).
Stories c. 2 hours 15 min including a break. Drinks available to purchase.
𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭:
"Modern storytelling at its best, with cinematic scene-setting and moments of genuine tension"
"Storytelling for today. Quirky, clever, and so entertaining. If I had a castle I would happily pay to keep this teller of tales at my hearth for the winter."
“Graeme has managed to make old British folk tales accessible without losing the original meaning.”
𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐬
Alice Nicholls is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and songwriter based in Leeds.
Originally a classical violinist who turned to the dark side of folk music, she now plays around with as many different instruments and genres as she can, delighting audiences and annoying purists with her innovative sound.