Setting sail for Cape Clear Storytelling Festival

The annual Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival will celebrate the live art from Sept 6-8. The festival, established by writer, Chuck Kruger, in 1994, attracts storytellers from all over the world.

Festival co-director, Gerry Clancy, says that Cape Clear “has always been known as the storytelling island.”

Clancy runs it with Daphne Babington. He says last year “was probably our biggest festival ever. About 500 people attended. (The population of Cape Clear is 120.) For the first time ever, we had to turn away people. The difficulty about Cape Clear is that the venues are quite small. So, in many ways, we have the opposite problem of many festivals. We don’t want it to grow too big. We want to keep the quality of the festival.”