Listen to Simple GiftsA Simple Gifts performance includes a wide variety of ethnic music performed on about twelve different instruments. |
A typical concert includes selections such as:
| Eddie Munster's Reel (Fancy guitar work and interplay of rhythm, by Bill Garrison - fiddle and guitar) |
| Semyon's Freilach (Exotic modal piece on hammer dulcimer and 6-string banjo) |
| Plains of Africa (Original African-influenced tune by Simple Gifts - fiddle and guitar) |
| Midnight Caravan (Macedonian-influenced piece in 7/8 meter; composed Simple Gifts - fiddle, concertina, mandolin) |
| Harrin Jenkka (Finnish tune previously unrecorded - dulcimer, concertina, guitar) |
| French Canadian medley (Traditional tune sung in French - vocals, guitar, hammer dulcimer, accordion) |
| Holy Manna (Traditional shape note hymn - fiddle and guitar) |
| Minka (Bulgarian tune in 7/8 meter on fiddles, concertina, percussion) |
| My Horses Ain't Hungry (traditional Appalachian song - vocals, guitar, dulcimer, tabla) |
| Simple Gifts (Our signature tune - two fiddles) |
| Randy's Polkas (Irish polkas on mandolin and hammer dulcimer) |
| Hi-Flyer Stomp, Banjo Piece (Two swing tunes - fiddle and guitar) |
Simple Gifts also offers a program Klezmer and More, with a focus on Klezmer and related styles from Eastern Europe.
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Recording and production of this material was partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by The Heinz Endowments; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. |
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