Storytelling

You can find information about Teresa’s recent and upcoming events here.

“When Teresa Jordan tells a story, be prepared to deplane, belt yourself into your rental car, take the ride and arrive.  ‘Cause, guaranteed: you’ll be there.” —David Kranes, playwright and former artistic director of the Sundance Playwrights’ Lab

Teresa’s stories, told live on stage without notes, have captivated audiences in venues ranging from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering to the Conference on World Affairs. Some, such as “Running Away from Home” and “The Aftermath,” are drawn from her youth on a Wyoming ranch; others, like “How to Train a Goldfish” and “The Extraterrestrial Taxista,” come from her far-flung travels across the American outback, Mexico, Argentina, Mongolia, and other climes. Whatever their source, these stories are sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, and always unexpected.

Teresa often appears in concert with her husband, musician Hal Cannon. To learn more about their current offering, Outback: Songs and Stories from an Unsung West, click here.

“Teresa Jordan’s storytelling tests the depths of ordinary experience and discovers its secret worth.  She captivates without flourish or fanfare, giving the sense of a story happening rather than being told, stringing a subtle web-work in which the listener, not knowing for sure how she did it, finds himself happily caught up.  Teresa’s is one of the principal voices defining the new oral tradition of the American West.” —John Daniel, author of The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life and Literature, and Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone.