Simply Strings will be providing Christmas tunes and other "old time" music Tuesday at the Callaway County Public Library.
The group is a traveling assortment of women from Mid-Missouri that play an assortment of hand-built dulcimers, banjos, a bowed psaltery, the fiddle and guitar. They will be performing a free concert at at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the library Friends Room for the first time in a year.
"This is our first chance to play any Christmas tunes this year, so we're looking forward to that," the group's guitarist, Linda Tremain, said.
In addition to Tremain, who is a Holts Summit resident, the group is comprised of Peggy Kleine, Melanie Black, Carol Welch and Mary Corderman. Tremain said they've been playing together for the past six years.
In addition to Christmas music, the group will be playing a variety of ragtime music, a waltz and one original song. Tremain said the performance should last about an hour, and there will be audience interaction and participation involved.
"We like to add in a little humor," she said. "We usually get regulars that like to come back to our shows once they've seen us once before."
Tremain said the group practices at the local library once a month, and library patrons are welcome to sit in on their practice sessions. Simply Strings said their main goal is to get people's "feet stomping and faces smiling."
Reference librarian Sherry McBride said there will be light refreshments at the event. She said events like this give the community an opportunity to see what library has to offer other than books.
"People are so busy during the holidays, and this is a good opportunity for people to get together and enjoy the season," she said.