Storytelling with Nasrudin

The music of The Balkans and beyond takes us on a journey: lyrical, compelling and compulsive. The band Nasrudin have been part of that journey for the last two years. Now they link up with a storyteller to expand the experience through the music of Nasrudin and the stories that Nasrudin the storyteller, told.

Mulla Nasrudin or Nasreddin Hoja – he goes by many names & is the archetypal thoughtful observer, expressing his own wry views on life and his fellow human beings. You’ll find him throughout the Balkans and on into Turkey and beyond, and everywhere they claim him as their own. The roots of his stories can often be found in Folk Tales from India, in Aesop’s Fables and particularly in The Arabian Nights. Whoever and wherever he is, there is always wisdom to impart in a wry off-beat way and, as with all the best stories, there is learning for our times.

Kerensa Mason, small and shy behind a dark curtain of hair, says ‘I write dark lyrics filled with metaphors and put happy melodies to them to mask how sinister they are, and to keep people guessing what my songs are about.”