Jay Ungar

Jay Ungar

Jay Ungar is an American musician and composer.

Ungar was born in the Bronx (New York City), the son of immigrant parents from Eastern Europe. He frequented Greenwich Village music venues during his formative period, and was a member of Cat Mother and the all-night newsboys & the Putnam String County Band. Although he has often played with David Bromberg, he is probably best known for "Ashokan Farewell", originally composed as a waltz which was played at his "Fiddle & Dance" music camp, located at the SUNY New Paltz Ashokan Field Campus, which was used as the theme tune to the Ken Burns documentary, "The Civil War". Many of his other compositions are familiar to contra dancers, notably "The Wizards' Walk."

In 1991, Ungar married fellow musician Molly Mason, whom he had first met during the 1970s, and they continue to perform together, with their band, Swingology, and occasionally Jay's daughter Ruth Ungar (her mother is Lyn Hardy) and her band The Mammals. Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Ruth Ungar and Michael Merenda also perform together as the Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band.

In 2006 they headlined the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle.

External links

* [http://www.jayandmolly.com/ Jay Ungar & Molly Mason]


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