2026 WINTER WORKSHOP with Jennifer Armstrong
Sing Me A Story - Tell Me A Song
Friday, January 30, 4 pm - Sunday, February 1, 11 am.
Ft. Caswell, Oak Island, NC
Members $300
Non-members $350
Come spend a weekend playing with the music, rhythm, and poetry of storytelling. Melody is one part of music, yes, just as words are part of a story, but there is so much more! There is rhythm, refrains, tempo, dynamics, crescendos, and rests… Oh my friends, the importance of silence. We will explore this fully. We need to leave space in our storytelling for our listeners to enter the story. Claude Debussy famously said, “Music is the space between the notes.” I believe we can say the same for stories. Stories come alive in the silence between the words. You do not need to be a singer or play an instrument, for that is not the music I am talking about (wonderful though it is!). We will be exploring the music that dwells at the heart of every story.
Jennifer has been telling stories since 1959. (She was 2 years old and had to tell Goldilocks and the Three Bears herself for a bedtime story because her mother was sick of telling it.) Jennifer now tells stories every month at the Montessori school a mile from her house, where a 4-year-old today excitedly asked her where the gingerbread man was (the dancing puppet) and she was going to blow in her bag? (Play her bagpipe) She co-leads a monthly women’s song and story circle where she and Katherine tell stories around 12 feminine archetypes. She is looking forward to sharing stories in Fort Caswell.
Jennifer Armstrong has spent her life writing, singing, and making music with fiddle, bagpipe, banjo, and words. A storyteller with humor, warmth, and grace, she is also a singer, instrumentalist, poet, and published author. Jennifer works as an artist in residence in folk arts, storytelling, and writing, as well as a private teacher and performer. Her stories and songs about farming, life’s mysteries, love, and gratitude have been heard across the country — from the Kennedy Center to NPR — and she has recordings and published books to her credit.
Jennifer is wonderful, informative, and entertaining. To put it simply, people love her! – Music Center of the North Shore
Visit Jennifer’s website.
