What The Critics Say…
ABOUT DONALD DAVIS
"Beneath the huge canopy, Davis had 1,500 people hanging on his every word. A master of timing, he measured some sentences drop by drop, poured others out like  water from a pitcher."
Bruce Watson, Smithsonian Magazine
"Davis (is)...among the most popular figures on today's storytelling circut."
Berkely Hudson, Los Angeles Times
"I could have listened all morning to Donald Davis...his stories often left listeners limp with laughter at the same time they struggled with a lump in the throat."
Wilma Dykeman, The New York Times
"Davis is not simply one of the finest storytellers practicing his craft today, he is also
one of the master teachers of other storytellers."
Michael Williams, Nashville Banner
ABOUT PRISCILLA HOWE
 “What delightful work you do! The audience thoroughly enjoyed your stories. And I could tell that you love dressing truth with story because it comes across in your presentation. The language comes to life when a story is told out loud, adding that extra color and spice.”
Marla Krell, Bethel College, Newton, Kansas
"Children flock to Priscilla. She has a lovely quality as a family performer, but in a modern way that is respectful of ethnicity and changing family situations ... She involves you in a story almost before you realize it's happening."
Sharon Benson, Salina Arts and Humanities Commission, Salina, Kansas
“Just a note to thank you for your tremendous performance at Rock Bridge Elementary! The children and the teachers loved seeing and hearing stories come to life right before their eyes. You were wonderful!! Thank you for inspiring our children and sharing your love of literature with us. . . You inspired me personally and in my second life I want to be a storyteller!”
Teacher, Columbia, Missouri
 ABOUT MARILYN KINSELLA
"Marilyn Kinsella told American Indian tales about monstrous beings and used suspense so skillfully that rows of startled students turned around quickly when a gust of wind whipped against the back of the tent."
Sam Blackwell Southeast Missourian
"Thank you so much for sharing your stories again this year! Our customers simply adore you. You are so wonderful at what you do and it is truly amazing how you make your stories come to life."
Susan and the PALs Crew
ABOUT KEVIN KLING
 "I first heard Kevin Kling on National Public Radio a decade ago. He was reading one of his haunting and hysterical commentaries, and it was a "pull the car over to listen" moment. I was hooked from that point on. Since then I've tracked down every one of his live performances, on-air interviews and unforgettable commentaries that I could find."
Heather McElhatton
"Kling is a master craftsman when it comes to storytelling. While he does have unique experiences from growing up disabled as well as traveling the world, his tales of everyday life are the easiest with which to connect. Whether it is a story of grade school high jinx or Christmas with his grandparents, I found myself both transported into the story and relating it to my own experience. Listening to these tales was like catching up with an old friend."
P. Heath
ABOUT SYD LIEBERMAN
"When he got up to speak, he magically transformed time and space … Lieberman shakes his imaginary pockets and you can see hundreds of gold pieces tumble out."
Chicago Tribune
"Your work was simply stunning. More than anyone I know, you personify the delicate balance between the intellect and the heart."
Rives Collins, Associate Professor of Theater, Northwestern University
“Syd's stories are full of a kind of humane, validating, and caring humor … He is simply one of the best.”
Vancouver Music Festival
“I can think of no higher form of the storytelling art than what you have created.”
Nan Kammann-Judd, former director of the St Louis Storytelling Festival
ABOUT MINTON SPARKS
"With a voice born for gospel and a word artistry that makes you laugh and weep by turns, Sparks offers poems sorrowful and hilarious about the land of the double-wides."
Santa Barbara Independent
 "The Nashville poet and storyteller unearthed another set of wondrous
vignettes that once again drew an unforgettable picture of life in the
South. Sparks has a unique niche that soulfully marries the Southern
storytelling tradition with the strains of old-time music for a hybrid
that is all her own."
Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun Times
"There's no one quite like Sparks on the contemporary music scene--no one with her ability to find and describe the haunting rhythms of this world in such precise, unadorned terms."
Performing
"Sparks talks like Lucinda Williams sings; low, bed-headed and husky with sin, either remembered or imagined. In the syncopated monologues on her new spoken-word album, This Dress, your gas-pumping mama, your fellow Baptists and your unmentionable relatives occupy every slot on the Waffle House jukebox, and when musical guests like Keb'Mos' and Maura O'Connell chime in, you can even dance to 'em."
Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene |
