September 8-10, 2023

A Fun, Friendly Weekend of Music

2023 Faculty

 

Simple Gifts

Folk Gathering's host band is two women (Linda Littleton and Karen Hirshon) playing twelve instruments, performing styles that range from old time to Celtic to Klezmer and beyond. 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 the concertina ventures far beyond styles considered traditional for that instrument. Based in the hills of central Pennsylvania, Simple Gifts switches with ease among two violins, concertina, mandolin, banjolin, recorders, bowed psaltery, hammered dulcimer, baritone fiddle, guitar, piano, and percussion.

 

More Faculty to Be Announced Soon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pennsylvania Heritage Musician

Saul Broudy

 

See Heritage Musicians for more information on his story and on past award recipients.

 

Contact us: (814) 643-6220 • info@folkgathering.com