A storyteller for decades, James inhabits the name and character James The Obscure as a storyteller. He has a “deep respect for ancient tales, the old stories which show us the values and customs of the people who are long gone. The ancient tales connect us to deep magic and skin-changing, and to the magic of the power of the words.” He is a past president of the Story People.

He will be accompanied by Jessadriel Darkmountain. Listen: a song by the river… Listen: a harp playing in the forest… Listen: a fiddle on the windy hill… Listen: a penny-whistle far out on the Spit, where the seals come close to hear… I’m not the Pied Piper. The Pied Piper is pied: he’s a multi-colored fellow, half in red and half in yellow. I’m the Piper in the Green, not so easy to be seen in my natural habitat. But sometimes I come in from the Wild to accompany the stories of Master James the Obscure. Listen….