STORYTELLING WITH ANDY OFFUTT IRWIN

I Have a Loose Tooth

The titular song for this program is a very silly, first-person blues musical about the anguish and joy of a child losing their first tooth. There is also a small economy lesson as the children are reminded that the first thing they ever sell is … that tooth. Other songs in the program include “Socks are Hard to See,” – a song about clothing;  and a counting song  “I Have Ten Fingers/I Have Ten Toes.”'  The program ends with a lullaby* that the grownups and children can help me sing, "The Light Went Away."

The songs are interactive and all grownups are absolutely, positively, totally, flat-out required to participate.

Sunday, May 16th, 2021
1:00pm to 1:45pm 

About The Storyteller

With a manic, Silly Putty voice, astonishing mouth noises, and heart-filled stories, Andy Offutt Irwin is equal parts mischievous schoolboy and the Marx Brothers, peppered with a touch of the Southern balladeer. He has been a Featured Teller at the National Storytelling Festival ten times and is a perennial favorite at the International Storytelling Center’s Teller-in-Residence Series.   

A storyteller, theatre director, singer-songwriter, and Shakespearean actor, Andy was Artist-in-Residence at Emory University’s Oxford College from 1991 to 2007.  He has performed at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York, The Library of Congress, Walt Disney World, and a whole mess of theaters, colleges, and festivals all over the United States 

Andy lives in Covington, Georgia. He thinks he is funny.