A panoply of ethnic folk music will combine on the Centenary Stage in April as the group “Simple Gifts” performs on Saturday, April 1st at 8 P.M. This award-winning group 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. “No other concert since has topped [“Simple Gifts”] on the fun meter, ” raved Carol Aulenbach of the Reading Musical Foundation in Reading, PA.

Switching with ease among hammered dulcimer, violins, mandolin, concertina, banjolin, recorders, psaltery , guitar, piano and percussion, the musicians of Simple Gifts play 12 instruments and an impressive array of ethnic folk music, interspersing the program with anecdotes about the instruments, musical styles and cultures from which they originate. “It’s like sampling an international buffet,” praised the Centre Daily Times, “ The number of instruments they pick up in a typical concert makes the group anything but simple. This is acoustic music of the highest order.”

How to Purchase Tickets
Individual Tickets (and Subscription Purchases, when available) can be purchased through our Secure Online Ordering System or by calling the Centenary Stage Company Box office at 908-979-0900. Tickets are also available at Greene's Beans Coffee Shop on High Street in Hackettstown.