Tales - AUGMEANTED

Harp & Sol: a freshly spun musical tale

At the center of all things lives Kora the Harp Spider. Every day she weaves a harp for the Sun to play. When the Sun delights Kora's harp each dawn, a new Song is born. Our heroine, the newest Scrip of Song is to be born tomorrow. Straight into the Human Heart she will huckleberry slide. Until...

Soundtracked live by Geoffrey Taylor on his 5-string fiddle and more, and narrated in Mary Overlie's inventive rhyme, audiences of all ages found themselves not only rooting for, but helping*, our plucky Scrip of melody as she approaches her Birthiest-of-Days.

*The young and young-at-heart were invited into the play on stage to help us tell the story.

With performances in Fosston, Park Rapids & Bemidji, theater goers of all ages joined in the spinning of this new, yet timeless, tale.

Photo Gallery

Browse the gallery below to see feedback (both general audience and kids) and pictures from each of the venues.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota, through an Artists Engage Community Grant from the Region 2 Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
- Kahlil Gibran -

:: Media::

Area Voices on KAXE:: Cousins create musical folktale set to hit local stages.
Article in The Thirteen Towns newspaper serving the Fosston area.