Pickens World Music Concert: Simple Gifts Trio 35TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Event Description

Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall/Wilson Hall/Lenfest Center

Tickets are required: General Public: $21; Senior: $19; W&L Faculty & Staff: $17; W&L Student/Student: FREE with ID

Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Three 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 trio plays everything from lively Irish jigs and down-home American reels to hard-driving Klezmer freilachs 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 traditional West Virginia tune is enhanced by a Turkish drum and Indian shruti box.

Simple Gifts is well-known for their outgoing 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!

Performance supported in part by the Pickens Endowment.

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