The Kearney Area Storytelling Festival will present Don White and Geraldine Buckley as our featured national storytellers for our 2025 Festival.
There is no one-word description for what Don White does. He’s an award-winning singer/songwriter, comedian, author and storyteller. He’s been bringing audiences to laughter and tears for over thirty years, released ten CDs, three live DVDs, and two books, Memoirs of a C Student and The Hitchhiking Years. In 2011, he won the Jerry Christen Memorial Award, given out by Boston Area Coffeehouse Association, for his work with the community and that same year was given a key to the city in his hometown of Lynn, Massachusetts.
Don White has been featured in storytelling festivals around the country including the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee and the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival in Utah. Don’s approach to music is a unique blend. he has invented his own genre with a mix of humor and powerful songwriting. White’s arc as a writer and performer has taken him from his industrial hometown of Lynn, Massachusetts, through Boston’s comedy clubs and coffeehouses, and onto stages around the country. At every point, White has been the ultimate observer, infusing his work with his experiences as a husband, a father, a seeker, and a joker.
Geraldine Buckley, known for her wit, warmth and humor, is an internationally known and award-winning storyteller and educator. With 30 years of experience, she shares folk tales and Greek myths, mainly in schools, and conducts storytelling and creative/meditative workshops. She performs true stories based on her own globe-trotting adventures at festivals, schools, theatres, house-concerts, prisons and conferences, and performs her
educational storytelling show “Tea In The Slammer” in criminal justice departments of universities and other settings.
Geraldine has performed at the International Storytelling Festival and Timpanogos Storytelling Festival and has won two prestigious Gold Awards from Storytelling World. She says, “I have always loved stories – listening to them, reading them, telling them. Stories are a gift. They have such a wonderful way of transporting the listener into a different realm – a land of infinite possibilities.