A YORKSHIRE Dales farm will host an adult storytelling event around a campfire in September.

Settle Stories have invited International storyteller Cassandra Wye to perform the UK premiere of her new show Stories Under The Stars at Lower Winskill Farm in Langcliffe.

Audiences will gather round the campfire in a tradition as old as time for myths and folktales inspired by the sky above them.

Stories will range from wickedly funny to heartbreakingly poignant.

Cassandra performed a new commission to great acclaim in 2015 at the Settle Stories Star Party, a meeting of storytellers and astronomers.

A spokesman said: “Her stage presence, clarity of diction and sheer animated gusto for storytelling could not fail to impress.”

The Star Party sparked within Cassandra a new fascination in performing skylore stories for adults.

She was awarded an Arts Council Grant which allowed her to fly to America and receive training and mentorship from storyteller Lynne Morley.

At 83 years old, Lynne has passed on her stories to Cassandra to ensure they will carry on being told.

Cassandra said: “I journeyed to the prairies of the USA, to understand more clearly the stories of the Native American Indian Nations who lived on the plains.

“To be able to look up at night and see the sky they saw and walk through the prairie grass as they would have done, centuries ago.”

Visit settlestories.org.uk or call 05603 84569 to book tickets.