Narrated with live music on Celtic harp and 12-string guitar featuring 37 character voices.
Odds Bodkin’s 4-hour epic audio story, The Odyssey: An Epic Telling.
Odysseus. The Cyclops. Circe. The Sirens. Troy. Ithaca. The Underworld. The Isle of Cannibals. The Whirlpool. The Hall of Suitors. 42 episodes in all. 4 hours 8 minutes.
“a tour de force“–Dartmouth Department of Classics
“a consummate storyteller”–The New York Times
Each day this week Master Storyteller and Musician Odds Bodkin will tell a different music-filled story from his collection of tales for children.
The performances are at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time.
If you’re a mom or dad with kids at home during this scary time and you need a break, then sit the kids down for two stories with sweet and warm characters, amazing sound effects and a live score on 12-string guitar and African sanza.
Follow Odds Bodkin at
https://www.facebook.com/oddsbodkin/
and join him on April 3 at 12 noon EST.
Please share with friends and family!
Each day this week Master Storyteller and Musician Odds Bodkin will tell a different music-filled story from his collection of tales for children.
The performances are at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time.
If you’re a mom or dad with kids at home during this scary time and you need a break, then sit the kids down for a story with wild characters, amazing sound effects and a live score on 12-string guitar.
Follow Odds Bodkin at
https://www.facebook.com/oddsbodkin/
and join him on April 2 at 12 noon EST.
Please share with friends and family!
Each day this week Master Storyteller and Musician Odds Bodkin will tell a different music-filled story from his collection of tales for children.
The performances are at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time.
If you’re a mom or dad with kids at home during this scary time and you need a break, then sit the kids down for a half hour of wild characters, amazing sound effects and a live score on 12-string guitar.
On Tuesday March 31st, at 12 noon EST, he’ll perform Finn MacCool and the Big Man, a hilarious Irish folktale with a song to learn.
Follow Odds Bodkin at
https://www.facebook.com/oddsbodkin/
and join on March 31st at 12 noon EST.
Please share with friends and family!
Each day this week at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time, Master Storyteller and Musician Odds Bodkin will tell a different music-filled story from his collection of tales for young children.
If you’re a mom or dad with kids at home during this scary time and you need a break, then sit the kids down for a half hour of wild characters, amazing sound effects and a live score on 12-string guitar.
Tomorrow, Monday March 30th , at 12 noon EST, he’ll perform The Little Shepherd, a completely absorbing Italian Fairy Tale.
Follow Odds Bodkin on Facebook.
That’s tomorrow, Monday March 30th at 12 noon EST.
Please share with friends and family!
“Fjalar.”
“Yes, Galar.”
“I miss the mead. I miss those sips. I didn’t understand what happened to me when I drank it, Fjalar.”
“I did. Wisdom happened to you, Galar. That’s why you didn’t unders…”
Suddenly their heavy oaken door blew in and landed flat on the floor. There stood an old man in a grey robe and wide hat, his one-eyed, scarred face half-obscured in the swirling stone dust. He carried a gnarled staff in his left hand.
“Dwarves…” said the stranger, who, although they did not know it, was Odin, who was about to kill them. He’d finally found the murderers of his best friend. “Welcome…”
A mortal fear swept the two dwarf brothers of Nidavellir.
THE MEAD OF POETRY is the second story in ODIN AND THOR BATTLE THE FROST GIANTS, an adult storytelling with music at Grendel’s Den in Cambridge, MA this coming Sunday, March 8th at 5:30 p.m.
“a consummate storyteller” — The New York Times
“a preternatural ability to create characters with an array of simply inspired voices.”—digboston 2020
THE ODYSSEY: A Storytelling Evening with Odds Bodkin. Show starts at 8 pm at the Riverwalk Music Bar in Nashua, NH. Older kids and teens welcome. Enjoy an immersion into Greek mythology you’ll never forget!
Grab your tickets today to see Odds Bodkin perform his epic version of Homer’s THE ODYSSEY next Saturday night, July 27th, in Nashua, NH. The show starts at 8 pm at the Riverwalk Music Bar. Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 at the door.
It’s Saturday night in New Hampshire and instead of bar hopping, why not island hop with Odysseus of Ithaca in 1300 B.C.? Unlike him, you can settle in comfortably and order drinks and a dinner as I regale you with his namesake story, the Odyssey. The Island of the Lotus Eaters is where fentanyl-like flowers grow; Odysseus and his men are lucky to escape alive, which can’t be said for their visit to the Island of the Cyclops. Other islands come: the Island of the Cannibals where most of his fleet is destroyed; Aeolia, the Island of the King of the Winds who puts all the storms into an ill-fated bag which, of course, doesn’t stay closed; on and on. Island after island. Adventure after adventure.
I’ve been telling this tale with 12-string guitar and harp for decades and will be doing a fairly long version of it (not the complete 4 hours, though) at the Riverwalk Music Bar on July 27, 2019 at 8 pm.
This is a full evening’s entertainment.
I hope to see you there!
The Riverwalk Music Bar is a hip place to perform. Usually the venue hosts bands and young singer-songwriters, but a few times each year I arrive in my ancient hoariness with an epic for adults.
If you count them, there are 37 character voices in my telling of Homer’s The Odyssey: Odysseus himself, his crew, the Cyclops, cannibals, Circe, Lotus Eaters, on and on. It’s Greek mythology told in modern English with a score on 12-string guitar and Celtic harp, peppered throughout with vocal effects like wind and seabirds. Of all the epics I tell, I’ve been telling this one the longest.
The show starts at 8 pm. So grab a delicious dinner, order from the bar and settle in for some imaginative, out-of-body storytelling.
Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 at the door.
This coming Wednesday evening at 6 pm in Candia, New Hampshire I’ll be telling The Boys and the Frogs, an Aesop’s fable on Celtic harp, The Little Shepherd, an Italian fairy tale on 12-string guitar, and Finn MacCool and the Big Man, a myth of sorts (it’s funny) on a second 12-string guitar.
A fun show for the entire family at Smyth Public Library.
Bring blankets or folding chairs and I’ll see you there!
40% Off on Odds Bodkin’s story drives ends tomorrow, December 10th. Check them out. Instant downloads of individual titles always available, too!
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