BUTLER TWP - The Butler County Community College Cultural Center's Succop Theater welcomes Simple Gifts, a three-woman international folk group at 8 p.m. Saturday.

This rural Pennsylvania-based trio performs on an array of instruments, including two violins, concertina, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, piano and guitar plus other unusual instruments such as the bowed psaltery, banjolin, baritone fiddle and doumbek.

Linda Littleton, Rachel Hall and Karen Hirshon have performed as Simple Gifts since 1995. The group has performed throughout the mid-Atlantic region, including at the Smithsonian Institution, Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Governors' Convention, and Philadelphia Folk Festival.

Simple Gifts has recorded five albums. Their newest, "Time and Again," won a third place bronze star Crossroads Music Award in the acoustic instrument category.

The recording includes traditional music from Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Ireland, Scotland, France, Denmark and America plus original compositions.

In addition to the concert, the evening will consist of an arts and crafts exhibit in the Mary Hulton Phillips Gallery and a dessert reception following the concert sponsored by the Butler Chapter of the American Association of University Women.

Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and $10 for students.

For tickets or information, call the Succop Theater Box Office at 724-287-8711, Ext. 429.