Saturday April 28 from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM at the Claremont Friends Meetinghouse (727 West Harrison Avenue, Claremont, CA) is the 29th Annual Southern California Story Swap Festival. This is the annual gathering of all of the storytelling groups in Southern California. There are workshops, small group story swaps, food, 60 second stories, and a closing concert which starts at 2:30 PM with a representative from each storytelling group telling a story. Admission is $20 for all day if paid by April 14, $25 thereafter. Admission is $10 for the closing concert at the door. Click here for more information.

2011 Spring Concert

Saturday night, May 12 from 7:30-9:30 at the Claremont Friends Meetinghouse, 727 West Harrison Avenue, Claremont. In addition to the regular Inland Valley Storytellers, we will have Barbara Clark as a guest teller. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. More info will be posted later.

Barbara Clark

Tellabration! 2011
The Tellabration! 2011 concert, which was held on November 19, 2011 at the Claremont Folk Music Center, was a great success!! 51 people paid to listen to an amazing variety of stories. It was a very responsive audience. Inland Valley Storytellers members Patricia Snow, Angela Lloyd, Karen Rae Kraut, Ron Evans, Ron Chick, and John St. Clair told captivating stories. Nick Smith was the emcee. Special thanks go to the Claremont Folk Music Center for letting us use their facility again this year. As usual Chris St. Clair did a great job coordinating the intermission refreshments and many IVS members contributed goodies. A special thanks goes to Paul Bublin for providing the hot chocolate and out of this world chocolate chip cookies.

2011 Spring Concert
The 2011 Spring Concert was held on April 16 from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM at the Claremont Friends Meetinghouse. 41 people paid to hear a wonderful variety of stories. Patricia Snow was the emcee. Guest teller Steven Henegar joined Inland Valley Storytellers members Penelope Mann, Sara Truitt, Angela Lloyd, Karen Rae Kraut, Ron Chick, and John St. Clair telling captivating stories. Special thanks go to guest teller Steven Henegar and the Claremont Friends Meeting for letting us use their facility. Many IVS members contributed goodies for the intermission refreshments.

Sisters in Song and Story
The Sisters in Song and Story concert was held on January 16 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the Claremont Friends Meetinghouse. There were 35 paid attendees who enjoyed the combination of stories and songs shared by Angela Lloyd, Nancy Schimmel, and Olga Loya.

Tellabration! 2010
The Tellabration! 2010 concert, which was held on November 20, 2010 at the Claremont Folk Music Center, was a great success!! 65 people paid to listen to an amazing variety of stories. It was a very responsive audience. Inland Valley Storytellers members Angela Lloyd, Nick Smith, Karen Rae Kraut, Ron Evans, Ron Chick, Brenna Kelly, and John St. Clair told captivating stories. Patricia Snow was the emcee. Special thanks go to the Claremont Folk Music Center for letting us use their facility again this year. As usual Chris St. Clair did a great job coordinating the intermission refreshments and many IVS members contributed goodies. A special thanks goes to Paul Bublin for providing the hot chocolate and out of this world chocolate chip cookies.

2010 Spring Concert
The spring 2010 concert, which was held on April 24, 2010 at the Claremont Friends Meetinghouse, was a great success!! Inland Valley Storytellers members Karen Rae Kraut, Ron Evans, Ron Chick, and John St. Clair told captivating stories. Special thanks go to guest tellers Leslie Perry and Marilyn McPhie as well as the Claremont Friends Meeting for letting us use their facility (and Ron Evans for making all the arrangements to use the facility). As usual Chris St. Clair did a great job coordinating the intermission refreshments and many IVS members contributed goodies. Also as usual Paul's chocolate chip cookies were out of sight!

John St. Clair with guest tellers Leslie Perry and Marilyn McPhie at the 2010 spring concert.

Tellabration! 2009
The Tellabration! 2009 concert, which was held on November 21, 2009 at the Claremont Folk Music Center, was a great success!! 55 people paid to listen to an amazing variety of stories. An additional 5 children were admitted free. It was a very responsive audience. Inland Valley Storytellers members Patricia Snow, Nick Smith, Karen Rae Kraut, Ron Evans, and John St. Clair told captivating stories. Special thanks go to guest teller Jim Cogan, who told a fascinating tale full of history and humor, and the Claremont Folk Music Center for letting us use their facility again this year. As usual Chris St. Clair did a great job coordinating the intermission refreshments and many IVS members contributed goodies. A special thanks goes to Paul Bublin for providing the hot chocolate and out of this world chocolate chip cookies.

2009 Spring Concert
The spring 2009 concert, which was held on May 9, 2009 at the Claremont Forum, was a great success!! Special thanks go to guest teller Joe Herrington and the Claremont Forum for letting us use their facility again this year.

Tellabration! 2008
The Tellabration! 2008 concert, which was held on November 22, 2008 at the Claremont Folk Music Center, was a great success!! Inland Valley Storytellers members Patricia Snow, Nick Smith, Karen Rae Kraut, Breena Kelley, and John St. Clair told captivating stories. Special thanks go to guest tellers Angela Lloyd, Liebe Gray, and Ross Altman and the Claremont Folk Music Center for letting us use their facility again this year. An extra special thanks goes to Karen Rae Kraut for being an awesome storyteller under duress.

Storytelling Workshop with Angela Lloyd
June 21, 2008 from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM at The Claremont Forum
Participants in the workshop had a good time. Thanks to Angela for doing the workshop with us.

2008 Spring Concert
The spring 2008 concert, which was held on April 26, 2008 at the Claremont Forum, was a great success!! Special thanks go to guest teller Padraic Keohane and the Claremont Forum for letting us use their facility again this year.

There were other prior events which are not listed here. The Inland Valley Storytellers started producing concerts with the Tellabration! 2003 concert at the Claremont Forum. We have been producing at least two concerts per year since then. The Tellabration! concert is always the Saturday before Thanksgiving at the Claremont Folk Music Center and the spring concert is in either April or May at the Claremont Forum.