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Storyteller, musician, folklorist, and author Joseph
Daniel Sobol is an artist of wide-ranging accomplishments. An artist-in-residence
for many years in North and South Carolina, he received a Masters
in Folklore from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and
a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. He
toured the country from 1994 through 1999 with his award-winning
musical theatre piece In the Deep Heart's Core based on the works
of Irish poet W. B. Yeats. His book on the American storytelling
revival,
The
Storytellers' Journey , was published in 1999 by the University
of Illinois Press. In addition he has released a cassette and four
CDs of music and stories, alone and with his group Kiltartan Road.
His 1999 recording,
Citternalia:
Celtic Music for Cittern was honored with a "Homegrown CD Award" by
Acoustic Guitar Magazine, which called the album "a watershed
project--dazzling speed and precision." His latest CD, Cast a Cold
Eye: Songs from the Poetry of W. B. Yeats, Volume 2 , was released
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