<div dir="ltr"><center><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><div style="font-size:11px;text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0);font-family:'andale mono',times;font-size:18px">Ashland University Spectrum Series </span><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0);font-family:'andale mono',times;font-size:18px">presents</span><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0);font-family:'andale mono',times;font-size:24px"> </span></div><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:'andale mono',times;color:rgb(128,0,0)"><div style="text-align:left">the Award-Winning Ethnic Folk Duo</div></span><b><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:'book antiqua',palatino;font-size:11px"><br></span></div></b><span style="font-size:11px;color:rgb(128,0,0)"><div style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:48px;font-family:'andale mono',times"><i>Simple Gifts</i></span></b></div></span><div style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times"><br></span></b></span></span></b></div><div style="font-size:18px;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0);font-size:24px"><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times"><b>THIS Saturday, January 31 </b>at<b> </b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0);font-size:24px"><b><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times">7:30 p.m.</span></b></span></span></b></div><p></p><div style="font-size:18px;text-align:left"><b style="font-size:small"></b></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><b></b></p><div style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:left"><b><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0);font-size:24px"><b><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jack-and-Deb-Miller-Chapel/126933027371798" target="_blank">Jack and Deb Miller Chapel</a>, Ashland University</span></b></span></span></b></b></div><div style="text-align:left"><b><br></b></div><p></p></center><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times"><font color="#990000">Linda Littleton and Karen Hirshon plus ten instruments equals one good time when <a href="http://www.vendini.com/e/rd.php?id=297206981&cid=117499&link_number=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.simplegiftsmusic.com" target="_blank"><b>Simple Gifts</b></a> takes the stage. Drawing on an impressive variety of ethnic folk styles, this award-winning duo plays everything from Irish jigs and American reels to Klezmer freilachs, Gypsy melodies Balkan dance music, Scandinavian twin fiddling, and original compositions.<br><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times"><font color="#990000">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. Based in the hills of central Pennsylvania, Linda and Karen switch with ease among fiddle, mandolin, banjo, recorders, bowed psaltery, hammered dulcimer, baritone fiddle, guitar, and percussion.</font><br></span></p><p style="font-size:11px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times;font-size:12px"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:11px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#990000"><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times;font-size:14px"><b>Tickets:</b> Adult: $15 | </span><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times;font-size:14px">Senior Citizen/AU Faculty, Staff & Alumni/Non-AU Student: $12 | </span></font><span style="font-family:'andale mono',times;font-size:14px"><font color="#990000">AU Student: $5 | Group of 10 or more: $10<br></font><b><font color="#990000">Ashland University Box Office</font>:</b> <a href="tel:419.289.5125" value="+14192895125" target="_blank">419.289.5125</a> | <a href="https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=6519dacee4043de1f64898a878008c51" target="_blank">www.ashland.edu/tickets</a></span></p>
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