31 Friday Aug 2018
Posted in Life, Music, Performance
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Ashokan Farewell, Ashokan Summer Hoot, fiddle, Folk music, Jay Ungar, Mike Meranda, Mollie Mason, music, performance, Ruthy Ungar, violin
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Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Mike Meranda, Ruth Unger, and a host of others bid farewell to the 2018 Summer Hoot in Ashokan with Jay’s haunting ballad, “Ashokan Farewell.” The song gained fame by being featured as the theme song of Ken Burns’s Civil War series.
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Life, Music, Performance
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Ashokan Farewell, banjo, fiddle, folk, guitar, Jay Ungar, Ken Burns, Mike and Ruthy, Molly Mason, music, performance, song
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At the close of each Summer Hoot Music Festival at Ashokan, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Mike Meranda, and Ruthy Ungar play Jay’s heartbreakingly beautiful ballad, Ashokan Farewell.
Jay and Ruthy on fiddle, Molly on guitar, Mike on Banjo.
The end of summer. We’ll miss you, Ashokan.
Thanks to YouTuber FolkAlleydotCom
