Press & Reviews
PRESS
- September
4, 2006 - Deseretnews.com - Utah News. ...Saturday
during the 17th annual Timpanogos Storytelling Festival at Mount Timpanogos
Park in Provo Canyon. [In the picture to the right], Maggi Peirce spins
a yarn at the festival.
- August
31, 2006 - Deseretnews.com - Utah News. National
storytellers in Orem for Timpanogos festival. ...Maggi Peirce grew up
in Belfast, Ireland, surrounded by song, rhyme and Victorian parlor
recitation. She draws on her history to pull listeners to the streets
of Belfast, the hills of Ulster and the parlor.
- April 30, 2002 - The Standard-Times, South Coast Today. Tryworks' Swan Song: Longtime coffeehouse closes doors with final concert Saturday. By Hank Seaman.
- July 9, 2001 - The Standard-Times, South Coast Today. Storyteller Maggi Peirce will be honored with a national award this week. By David B. Boyce.
- 2001 - UNC-TV, Folkways with David Holt. Maggi is one of the artists featured in the episode called "The Storytellers".
REVIEWS
AudioFile
Maggi Peirce's tales of her Belfast childhood are a wonder. Her Irish
lilt draws listeners into a different world. Yet the tales of holidays,
family life and childhood have a ring of universality. Her people profiles,
drawn from her own childhood, evoke a laugh and always a bit of folk wisdom.
D.P.D. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
AudioFile
An Ulster Christmas, an especially heart-warming and amusing live
recording, offers some new Christmas tales listeners will love to share
during the holidays. Peirce's Irish lilt draws listeners into a different
world. Yet the tales of holidays, family life and childhood have a ring
of universality. Her people profiles, drawn from her own childhood, evoke
a laugh and always a bit of folk wisdom. D.P.D. (c)AudioFile, Portland,
Maine
Kliatt
In a rich restrained Irish brogue Peirce, an accomplished storyteller,
reminisces in a series of vivid, heartwarming, and affecting sketches.
The universal experiences of family love and decency, little tragedies
and growing pains pervade these stories, yet they are specifically and
delightfully Irish.
