5:30
Nyla Ching-Fujii is a retired librarian and  the only teller from Hawaii to be featured at the National Storytelling Festival in Tennessee. She'll teach thel Japanese folksong "Shojoji" which feeds into the  Japanese folktale of Bumbuku the Magic Badger.

James McCarthy & Leslie Kline perform the traditional British tall tale of Wee Jack And the King in a decidedly non-traditional way. Both live off their music, and James is also a celebrated Drama Education teacher in our public schools. Prepare to laugh!

Jeff Gere shares his tale, The Rug. In 1992, as one of fourtyfive Hawaii artists at the Universal Expo in Spain, he paid for a Nigerian rug with a story. Jeff  founded and hosts the Talk Story Festival, and Talk Story Radio, and is famous in Summer Fun programs.

6:30pm
Lyn Ford*, from Ohio, returns to the Talk Story Festival with a few Home-Fried Tales, rooted in her family's storytelling traditions, with rhythm and rhyme, humor and heart. She tours schools and libraries on Maui and Hawaii next week with Alton Chung.

Lopaka Kapanui  is a kumu hula. In keeping with his love of ghostlore and supernatural tales (two books so far), he'll render the horrific Manoa legend of Kahala O Puna with the help of hula dancer Hoapili Jingao.

Sean Buvala* is the brains behind www.storyteller.net (check it out- immense library of all things related to storytelling). He'll use a John Denver tune for his Rapunzel's Song. Also, The Seven Ravens (Brother's Grimm) and The Emperor and the Dragons.

7:30pm
Alton Chung * is a local boy living in Portland. Realizing that mainlanders don't know  the heroic story of the Japanese-American 442^nd  Regiment/ 100^th Batallion during World War II, he wove two years of research into a fictitious tale of two brothers titled Heroes.