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In Harmony...Concert Series: Simple Gifts

In Harmony...Concert Series: Simple Gifts

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Two women plus twelve instruments equals one good time when Simple Gifts takes the stage. Drawing on an impressive variety of ethnic folk styles, this award-winning duo plays everything from lively Irish jigs and down-home American reels to hard-driving Klezmer frailachs and haunting Gypsy melodies, spicing the mix with the distinctive rhythms of Balkan dance music, the lush sounds of Scandinavian twin fiddling, and original compositions written in a traditional style.

Combining tradition with innovation, Simple Gifts creates some of the finest arrangements in folk music today: swing fiddle creeps into a Romanian dance, spoons show up in an Irish reel, and a blues lick introduces a Klezmer melody. Based in the hills of central Pennsylvania, these women play an amazing array of instruments. Linda Littleton and Karen Hirshon switch with ease among fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, guitjo, recorders, bowed psaltery, hammered dulcimer, baritone fiddle, guitar, and percussion.

Simple Gifts is frequently complimented on their stage presence, which is warm, personal, and accented with humor. These women deliver their music with rare intensity and contagious enthusiasm. It’s obvious that Simple Gifts loves the music they play and knows how to share their excitement with the audience. This is an act not to be missed!

This program will be held via Zoom and is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events at.DelawareScene.com.

To join the performance, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/97584690972?pwd=ZmFIaGFKOWhUVUJ4Qk1zYmV0YndXQT09 

Meeting ID: 975 8469 0972
Passcode: 746860

This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Date:
Friday, December 4, 2020 Show more dates
Time:
6:30pm - 8:00pm Eastern Time
Library:
Dover Public Library
Audience:
  All Ages  
Categories:
  Community and Culture  
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