Tickets for the 2009 Pike Piddlers Storytelling Festival will go on sale at 8 a.m. Friday, Jan. 2 at Rue’s Antiques in Brundidge.

The Pike Piddlers Storytelling Festival will feature nationally acclaimed storytellers Donald Davis, Kathryn Tucker Windham, Carmen Deedy and Bil Lepp.

Opening night tickets at the We Piddle Around Theater in Brundidge on Friday, Jan. 30 are $25 and include a country supper. Tickets for the three storytelling concerts at the Trojan Center Theater at Troy University on Saturday, Jan. 31 are $10 for the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. performances and $15 for the 6:30 p.m. performance, which also includes regional teller, Aleta Davis.

Rue Botts, ticket chair, said she expects sales to be rather brisk for the opening night concert and recommends that those wishing to get those tickets do so early.

“We should have tickets available for the Saturday concerts on into the next weeks,” she said. “Tickets will be available on site on Wednesday through Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. or by calling 334-735-3125.”

Botts said the 2009 Pike Piddlers Storytelling Festival promises to be one of the best storytelling concerts anywhere in the New Year.

“You don’t want to miss this one,” she said. “It will be an incredible time of storytelling.”