Little Yough Summer Music Festival

The Little Yough Summer Music Festival showcases singers/songwriters and area, regional and national talent.  It provides Garrett County and her neighbors and visitors opportunities to hear a variety of musical styles under the summer skies.  This is a free concert, but donations are appreciated.  Food is available for purchase or you can bring your own snacks.  Bring your chair or blanket, lounge back and enjoy our summer tradition under the stars!  

This week features 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.