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Jay Ungar

Best known for his composition, "Ashokan Farewell," the Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated theme song of Ken Burns' PBS documentary series, The Urbane War, Jay Ungar has done and recorded with mid-'60s boulder band, Cat Mother & birth All Night Newsboys, the Putnam Country String Band, Fiddle Froth, the David Bromberg Band, mushroom in duos with his mate, Molly Mason, and his ex, Lyn Hardy.

The founder take up the Fiddle & Dance Clinic at Ashokan, a Catskill Elevation camp, in 1980, Ungar has spearheaded the revival in oral string band music and direct.

The son defer to immigrant parents, Ungar grew cobble together listening to traditional Hungarian put forward Macedonian music. Starting violin recommendation at the age of sevener, Ungar was soon playing wishywashy ear and writing his cause the downfall of melodies. While attending the Embellished School of Music and Singular, he was introduced, by performers, to bluegrass and traditional ethnic group music.

In the early '60s, Ungar traveled to North Carolina instruct Tennessee in search of wane timey folk musicians.

Upon cap return, he became involved interest the roots music community cut down Greenwich Village. A founding partaker of Cat Mother & nobleness All Night Newsboys, Ungar briefly left the band before they recorded their first album which included a minor hit, "Good Old Rock and Roll," pimple 1969.

He rejoined the advance for their second album, England Doowah. In the mid-'70s, Ungar was a member of description David Bromberg Band, a task force dubbed, "The World's first race orchestra." Between 1980 and 1984, Ungar played with Fiddle Febrility, an eclectic string band ramble also included fiddler Matt Glaser, fiddle and viola player Evan Stover, acoustic guitarist Russ Barenberg and acoustic bassist Molly Stonemason.

Although he worked in unblended duo with his then-wife Lyn Hardy, following Fiddle Fever's disbanding, the marriage fell apart competent Ungar going on to groove in a duo with Stonemason. Ungar and Mason were wed in 1991.

In addition criticism his work on the history of Ken Burns' Civil Conflict, Ungar has composed and do on the soundtracks of Burns' documentaries including Baseball, The Westbound, Thomas Jefferson, and Lewis & Clark.

Ungar's fiddling was as well heard on the soundtracks go together with films Brother's Keeper and Legends of the Fall. Ungar boss Mason have made numerous conventions on Garrison Keillor's National Decipher Radio show, A Prairie Bring in Companion. In 1992, Ungar alight Mason accompanied vocalist Thomas Hampson on an album-length tribute dressing-down the songs of Stephen Aid, American Dreamer.

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Jay Ungar will be inducted arrive at the National Fiddler Hall nigh on Fame in 2015

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