Hmm. I just spent the afternoon with a friend. We're both sometime storytellers as well as occasional performers of folk music. We're putting music behind some stories. And we're looking at longer ballads and figuring out ways to combine singing and telling. What is interesting is that it seems that those parts of a story where we have music playing are the parts that people remember better. My friend also plays in a local band and occasionally throws a story into the performance, when the rest of the group lets her.