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🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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This Hispanic tale from the Southwest U.S. stars Adam Irigoyen (Away, Shake It Up) as a fiddler whose magical instrument brings the world to its feet, and the guilty to their knees.
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0:39.0 | Think about a time someone promised you something. |
0:43.0 | Maybe a friend promised she would return a toy you let her borrow. |
0:47.0 | Perhaps a grown-up promised to read an extra bedtime story if you finished your dinner. |
0:52.0 | When somebody makes a promise, you assume they will follow through, right? |
0:56.0 | And do what they said they would do? |
0:58.0 | Well, in today's story, a man makes a big promise and he's in for some big trouble when he doesn't follow through. |
1:14.0 | I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round. |
1:17.0 | Where story time happens all the time. |
1:19.0 | Today our story is called the Fantastic Fiddle. |
1:23.0 | Versions of this tale come from the Hispanic community in the American Southwest. |
1:30.0 | Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this folktale, including Adam Irregoyen, |
1:36.0 | from the Hit Disney Channel show Shake It Up and the New Netflix series Away. |
1:41.0 | So Circle Round everyone for the Fantastic Fiddle. |
1:54.0 | The Fantastic Fiddle. |
2:00.0 | There once was a wealthy rancher who owned the biggest and busiest sheep farm in the entire country. |
2:07.0 | The prosperous fellow was famous for his fine, woolly sheep and he hired a young man named Pablo to tend his flock. |
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