Dalrymple & the Wild Daimons
Heady Lore Productions presents:
Dalrymple and the Wild Daimons, a multi-media, musical theatre
ensemble utilizing puppetry, music, storytelling and silhouette film projections
in order to spark the seeds of human imagination to grow wild with,
PASSION, PURPOSE AND PLAY .
Each family friendly performance seeks to simultaneously educate,
inspire and entertain by creating bridges between the intuitive dream world and
waking reality. The enduring language of puppetry has become ever more
relevant today, in a technologically driven society which isolates us from one another and from
ourselves, puppetry unhinges the door to the fantastic and reveals the instinctual need we have to:
Believe In Magic.
The stories hidden in the depths of our unconscious are there to remind us
of the realm beyond words where we can once again allow ourselves to be enchanted with
the wonder that is life. We see the theatre as a creative crossroads where, with our audience,
we can suspend disbelief and embark upon an immersive, interactive and participatory journey together.
We believe the elevated quality of this shared experience has the power to transform our world for the better.
Meet The Team
Dalrymple MacAlpin
Artistic Director
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Cory Van Kol
Drums/Percussion
Angela Holm
Producer/Manager
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Jesse Krautkramer
Saxophone/Vibraphone
Benjamin Milner
Sound Technician
Audio Engineer
Pamela Hodges
Stage and Set Design/Graphics
Camen Hodges
Michael Wronski
Upright and Electric Bass
Stage Technician
Videographer
Jill Kelly
Costumes/Textiles
Stephanie Molleman
Lighting Tech/Special Effects
Dalrymple macalpin
From the dawn of his career in Detroit Michigan, singer, puppeteer, composer, storyteller and multi-instrumentalist, Dalrymple MacAlpin has been creating works stepped in the culturally rich heritage of mythology, folklore, faerie tales and the mystical traditions surrounding them.
MacAlpin's body of work consists of eight studio albums and five multi-media musical theatre productions. Throughout his various creative disciplines, MacAlpin continually reinvents his characteristic approach to singing, song-writing, puppetry and the unconventional interpretation of his signature instruments, the piano, harp and guitar.
RECORDINGS
After recording his first album, March To The Sun in 2001, MacAlpin moved from Detroit to the historic gold-rush town of Nevada City, California where he founded the medieval/psych-folk ensemble, Lasher Keen. MacAlpin wrote, recorded and released six Lasher Keen albums between the years 2006 and 2015 on record labels, Pesanta Ur-folk and Crystal Cave Records. His 8th studio album, Make Believe was released in 2019.
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STAGED WORKS
Inspired by Irish poet/playwright W.B. Yeats’ stage works, MacAlpin wrote, directed and scored his 1st production, The Middle Kingdom, in 2015. The Middle Kingdom is based on a 12th century love story from Irish mythology, Tochmarc Etaine.
His second production, Make Believe, debuted in 2019, based on the Sisters Wild, a real family of six sisters who lived next door to the preeminent folklorists, the Brothers Grimm. These often overlooked and uncredited sisters were responsible for many of the Grimm’s most enduring fairy tales.
​MacAlpin debuted his 3rd stage production in 2019, Illumination Tales: Poetic Magic From Ancient Ireland, Stories and Songs of Finn mac Cumhaill. This intimate bardic odyssey caters to a more personal facet of MacAlpin's artistic spirit, culling together his story and song craft into a cohesive and exhaustively researched program of harp ballads and dramatic interpretative tale telling over the course of three acts.
MacAlpin’s 4th staged work The Cauldron Crone, debuted in 2019. The Cauldron Crone is a retrospective, featuring previously produced selections from Illumination Tales, Make Believe, and The Middle Kingdom. The show then showcased a new work entitled, The Cauldron Crone.
​MacAlpin debuted his 5th stage production, The Golden Thread in 2024. This production incorporates marionettes MacAlpin designed and built after studying with Czech puppet master, Miroslav Trejtnar. The Golden Thread is partly based on the Greek Myth of Er by Plato and the Welsh, Hanes Taliesin by Elis Gruffydd.
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TOURING/LIVE PERFORMANCES
Throughout Europe and America, MacAlpin's live shows have found him sharing the stage and working with artists such as: Terry Riley, John Ames, Motoko, Antonio Rocha, Bonnie Prince Billy, Faun Fables, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, In Gowan Ring, Dawn McCarthy, The Edmund Welles Quartet, Mellissa Auf Der Maur, Oz Fritz, Jeremey Cohen and many others.
MacAlpin has performed throughout the US and internationally at notable festivals and venues including, The Skupova Plzen Puppetry Festival in the Czech Republic, The Northwest Folklife Festival, The Sierra Storytelling Festival, Noise Pop Festival, Café Du Nord in San Francisco, The New Parrish in Oakland CA, Center for the Arts in Grass Valley, CA, The Star Theater in Portland Oregon and the oldest running play house west of the Mississippi, the historic Nevada Theatre in Nevada City, CA.
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STUDIO
MacAlpin, along with his wife, son, six cats and 84 puppets (and counting) has made a home for himself in The Dream Factory, a private studio located in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California.