Tags
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.