Mike Burns
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| Mike Burns has been telling stories for over 40 years now and says 'I have a feeling I may yet come good at it’. He got a lazy start, not having to leave the fireplace in his father’s house to hear stories and seanchas. A Gaelic speaker, he has a repertoire of several hundred traditional stories from the lore of Iveragh (South Kerry). Living in Montreal for over 20 years, Mike has performed his Irish stories for audiences in North America and Europe in festivals, community centres and pubs, notably The Toronto Story Telling Festival, Festival d’arts créatifs du Labrador and Festival du conte du Québec, sometimes accompanied by Toby Kinsella, musician and founder of the Celtic Group Bard with whom he recorded the piece The King of Birds. Mike’s work is in Ghostwise, an anthology of Canadian Storytellers, published by Dan Yashinsky in Toronto in 2002, and most recently his work has appeared in Les jours sont contée Portrait de conteurs published by Planète rebelle/Littorale. Mike has created a book-CD of stories (in French) and a CD of stories in English as well as being included in anthologies of Canadian storytellers in both French and English. He is a co-founder of Regroupement Du Conte au Québec (RCQ) and has been awarded the Girouette Cuivrée prize for services as a storyteller. |