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Shoals Storytelling Festival

13th Anniversary

Join us  – May 16-18, 2023!

Location:
Shoals Theatre – 123 N Seminary St. – Florence, AL 35630

Festival Hours:
The festival begins on Thurs from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Doors will be open at 6:00 pm
Friday hours 9:00 am – 9:00 pm. Doors open at 8:00 am.
Saturday hours 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Doors open at 8:00 am.

The list of storytellers who have performed at the Shoals Storytelling Festival reads like a who’s who among storytellers – Donald Davis, Bil Lepp, Dolores Hydock, Carmen Deedy, Elizabeth Ellis, Andy Offutt Irwin, Kevin Kling, Barbara McBride-Smith, Rev. Robert Jones, Tim Lowry, Diane Ferlatte, Don White, Josh Goforth, Geraldine Buckley, Three on a String, Norton Dill and the Dill Pickers, Rick Bragg, Sean Dietrich, Walt Aldridge, Lenny LeBlanc, Mac McAnally, Inge Auerbacher, Pippa White, Eric Kirkman, Kate Campbell, Minton Sparks and the late Syd Liberman and Spencer Bohren.

SHOALS STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
2024 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

 

Schedule Coming Soon!

2024 Storytellers

Friday, May 17

In Her Own Fashion, by Dolores Hydock: Stories of career disasters, celebrity encounters, war, peace, and reckless romance, based on the life of Ninette Griffith, a sassy, ambitious, independent woman who, at age 95, was ready to tell all.

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Saturday, May 18

Intrepid Birdmen: The Pilots of World War I, by Dolores Hydock: The thrilling true story of the crazy courage of the earliest pilots who took combat to the skies in the Great War. Adapted from the story by Shoals Storytelling Festival veteran Syd Lieberman.