Simple Gifts by Ed Sweeney on Banjo & Yang Wei on Pipa

Simple Gifts is a beautiful melody that sometimes referred to as the Shaker Hymn. It is a tune type whose variations are heard in hundreds of songs. Yang Wei, who is from Shanghai China and now lives in Chicago, is playing a Pipa, a traditional Chinese instrument. I am playing Clawhammer (or Frailing) style banjo. The photos are from the many places my wife and/or I have visited over the past few years.

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Music

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• Simple Gifts
• Ed Sweeney
• Yang Wei
• Banjo
• Pipa
• Frailing
• Clawhammer
• Traditional music
• chinese instruments
• hymn
• Shaker Hymn
• old-timey banjo
• acoustic music
• folk
• world music
• 5 string banjo

[thomastheteach]

beautiful... Thank you this helped me learn to play it on my banjo :)

[BanGiorno1]

Beautiful Just Beautiful!!!

Are banjo available?

[YoppyKyabetsu]

It is so cool to hear these two instruments together.

[fourscore1]

finally! any tableture for banjo?

[guitarmandoguy]

Five stars from me. Very tasteful and played so well. I love it. I'm going to post a video response to this . . . not as clean a version as yours, but same song.