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A Simple Gifts performance includes a wide variety of ethnic music performed on about twelve different instruments.

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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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