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Dragon Lady Records
1325 W Magnolia Ave
San Antonio TX 78201
210.227-JAZZ (5299)
“These recordings are
exceptionally rich and warm....Everybody knows Old Dry
Fry, and nobody tells it better than Mary Grace, giving
free rein to a Texas accent she came by honestly and
knows how to use to its best advantage....I'd recommend
these stories for grownups all the way down to very
intelligent 10-year-olds."
—Megan Hicks
life, the
universe, and everything Read the entire review here.
1001 Years
of 1001 Nights Mary Grace Ketner $12 (plus shipping & applicable
sales tax)
The fanciful tales of
sultans, djinns, wise women and caliphs ascribed to the
legendary queen Scheherazade are collectively known as
Alf Laylah wa-Laylah, A Thousand Nights and One
Night. Throughout the last millennium, storytellers
have carried these enduring stories around the world,
expanding and adapting them to new languages and
cultures and creating an international family of
timeless tales.
In this album, award-winning storyteller Mary Grace
Ketner recounts Scheherazade's own story, along with
three of the 1001 tales the legendary Persian princess
told to her sister/accomplice Dinrazade to enchant and
disarm her murderous husband, the sultan Sharyar.
Included are Scheherazade’s best-loved “Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves” along with two living descendents of her
ancient accounts: “The Peddler of Swaffham” and “Old Dry
Fry” have been passed orally from one generation to the
next to this very day, years and oceans away from their
roots in ancient Persia (Sheherazade's “The Ruined Man
Made Rich by a Dream” and “Tale of the Hunchback”).
The cover design, a vintage illustration by Frances
Virginia Sterrett ffom a 1928 edition of Arabian Nights,
is entitled “Scheherazade went on with her story"―just
as she goes on today in the warm and passionate voice of
Mary Grace Ketner."
Ghostly Gals
& Spirited Women
Mary Grace Ketner $12 (plus shipping & applicable
sales tax)
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"I listened o both CD's
while on a road trip with my 13-year-old granddaughter
Hannah. Hannah was as spellbound as I was; these CD's
scored big time with her, and if a storyteller can win
the praise of a teenager, well, that's high praise
indeed."
—Susanna Holstein
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Ghostly Gals
& Spirited Women
Mary Grace Ketner $12 (plus shipping & applicable
sales tax)
Professional storyteller
Mary Grace Ketner, an award-winning artist on the Texas
Commission on the Arts touring roster, paints vivid word
pictures of fascinating women from myths and legends
worldwide. "Pretty Maid Ibronka" is so desperate for a
boyfriend that she would welcome a devil for a mate,
something she soon regrets in this Hungarian folk tale.
In "Chien Nang," a dutiful daughter rebels when her
father insists on her betrothal for wealth instead of
love. And the stories come closer to home in "Miss
Annie," about a clairvoyant in East Texas; "The
Condiment Basketball Game," about growing up in a
small-town; and the eerily familiar "La Llorona." Over
an hour of riveting stories makes this CD the perfect
family companion for those long car trips.
“Ghostly Galls...It’s
like a Whitman Sampler of stories with colorful female
characters: folk tales, fairy tales, local legends,
scary, wistful, eerie, and one of them, "The Condiment
Basketball Game," is an outright hoot. Ketner tells the
best "La Llorona" I’ve ever heard, and I count that story
among the “regulars” in my own repertoire. Finally,
"Pretty Maid Ibronka," a Hungarian fairy tale, has all the
enchantment of a dream – a dream you want desperately to
wake up from."—Megan,
Read the entire review here.
"I had a most delightful
ride home last night from work listening to Mary Grace's
many voices in her beautiful, sometimes funny, always
engaging stories from her latest CD. The playful,
inviting use of music, voice, echo, and more, kept me
wondering what would happen next."—Vanessa Potter, Potter's Storytelling Playhouse
"Mary Grace Ketner is one of the classiest storytellers
around, and her Ghostly Gals & Spirited Women is a
collection of some of her best-told tales. Her 'La
Llorona' captures the essence of its classic tragic
theme in a way no one else has, and her versions of
three world folk tales are crafted with respect for
their origins as well as an awareness of their universal
truths. Her word portrait of 'Miss Annie' and her
description of 'The Condiment Basketball Game' show the
range and diversity of her creative and performing
skills."—Donna Ingham, author of Tales with a Texas
Twist (Globe Pequot, 2005)
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