Listen to Simple Gifts
A Simple Gifts performance includes a wide variety of ethnic music performed by three women playing twelve instruments.
Listen to Simple GiftsA Simple Gifts performance includes a wide variety of ethnic music performed by three women playing twelve instruments. |
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A typical concert includes selections such as:
| Midnight Caravan (Macedonian-influenced piece in 7/8 meter; co-composed by 2 Simple Gifts members - fiddle, concertina, mandolin) |
| Bill Garrison's Tune (composed by Bill Garrison, fancy guitar work and interplay of rhythm - fiddle and guitar) |
| Carl's Grandpa's Tune (Finnish tune previously unrecorded - dulcimer, concertina, guitar) |
| Rigged Ships, June Apple (2 Shetland tunes paired with an American tune - 2 fiddles & concertina) |
| Glendi ke Horos (2 traditional Greek tunes on mandolin, hammer dulcimer, concertina) |
| Minka (Bulgarian tune in 7/8 meter on fiddles, concertina, percussion) |
| Bumblebee Sirba (Klezmer - fiddle, concertina, guitar, percussion) |
| My Horses Ain't Hungry (traditional Appalachian song - vocals, guitar, dulcimer, tabla) |
| Blizzard Hambo (original in a Swedish style - fiddle, baritone fiddle, percussion) |
| Brighton Beach Waltz, Kishinev (originals in a Klezmer style - fiddle, concertina, 6-string banjo, percussion) |
| Lebedig un Freilach (lively Klezmer tune on fiddle, banjolin, and piano) |
| Coilsfield House (elegant violin/piano duet by Scottish composer Nathaniel Gow) |
| Randy's Polkas (Irish polkas on mandolin and hammer dulcimer) |
Rasbitaya Gisn (emotional Russian piece on fiddle, concertina, and guitar) |
| Semyon's Freilach (exotic modal piece on hammer dulcimer and 6-string banjo) |
| Box Turtle (2 originals in Appalachian style paired with Scottish tune - banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, concertina, piano) |
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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