#Jay Ungar

[martiancount1877]

Jay Ungar's Ashokan farewell by Foundring ( Kylan K. )

The sun is sinking low in the hills above Ashokan. The pines and the willows know soon we will part. There's a whisper in the wind of promises unspoken, And a love that will always remain in my heart.

My thoughts will return to the sound of your laughter, The magic of moving as one, And a time we'll remember long even after The moonlight and music and dancing are done.

Will we climb the hills once more? Will we walk the woods together? Will I feel you holding me close once again? Will every song we've sung stay with us forever? Will you dance in my dreams or my arms until then?

Under the moon the mountains lie sleeping Over the lake the stars shine. Ah they wonder if you and I will be keeping The moonlight and music, or leave them behind.

Under the moon the mountains lie sleeping The magic of moving as one They wonder if you and I will be keeping The moonlight and music or part when they're done

[musicwithoutborders]

Jay Ungar · Molly Mason, Cows On The Hill I Waltzing With You (Music From The Film "Brother's Keeper"), 1998

[scottwellsmagic]

772: S.A.M. 2023 Convention in New Orleans - Day Two Report

Monday, July 24th

9:00 AM Registration Open Vieux Carre Foyer

9:00 AM SAM Event 1 – Youth Protection Training “Thurston Lecture Hall”

9:00 AM SYM Youth Academy  “William Andrews Classroom”

10:00 AM EXHIBITORS Open “Kellar Exhibitor Hall”

10:30 AM LECTURE 3: Doug Conn “Thurston Lecture Hall”

1:30 PM SHOW 2: STARS OF TOMORROW Stage Show “Thurston Lecture Hall”

3:30 PM LECTURE 4: Pro close up 1 with R. Paul Wilson & Friends “Thurston Lecture Hall”

3:30 PM Registration Close Vieux Carre Foyer

5:00 PM EXHIBITORS Close “Kellar Exhibitor Hall” S.Y.M. Youth Academy Ends “William Andrews Classroom”

7:00 PM Bus transporation pick up at hotel

8:00 PM SHOW 3: S.A.M. Contest Experience Houdini Theater @ The Jesuit

9:30 PM Bus transportation pick up at Jesuit 10:30 PM PARTY 2: SAM Jam Session or Movie Vieux Carre Foyer

Time stamps for this podcast to be posted after I’ve gotten some sleep.

00:00:16 - Jay Ragnu talks about his first convention experience at the Desert Magic Seminar in the 1970’s with Dai Vernon, Slydini and Johnny Paul

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[hellocanticle]

The Young Person’s Guide to Ben Johnston

Microfest MF 23 I’m guessing that my title has its origins in the Benjamin Britten piece, “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”. That phrasing has been used by the likes of Phill Niblock and King Crimson to title retrospective compilation discs. While the disc under consideration here is not, strictly speaking, a retrospective it is a fine representation of the chamber music of the late…

[prairie-fever]

'america' is stolen land. i do not, and never will, condone colonisation and genocide. if you enjoy looking at my pictures of the american west, please remember the history behind american expansionism.

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[finrays]

Thinking this morning about the time I got to witness the universe spank a pedantic asshole that I was about to slap myself.

I was at a folk concert given by the local symphony orchestra with my family, and the guy sitting a row behind us was being just… insufferable. Aside from the fact that he was bloviating excessively about every song on the program, the tone of his voice was just MADDENINGLY smarmy and superior. I was ready to turn around and shove the program in his mouth the whole first half of the concert.

Then we get to Ashokan Farewell, which is a song I really, really like. This fucking moron starts going “Ah yes, it’s an old Civil War folk tune, written by an artist from the South, I believe-“

And if you know anything about the song you’ll know that’s entirely wrong. It’s a rumor that got started because Ken Burns used it as the intro for his Civil War documentary series. The damn thing was written in 1982 by Jay Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, and it originated as a goodbye/goodnight piece at a mountain valley in Upstate New York where they used to hold fiddle and dance camps. One of his companions cautiously ventured this and was summarily dismissed with something like “Oh, well that’s not what *I* heard.”

It took a HERCULEAN effort not to turn around and Well Actually this guy. I strongly feel that if you’re gonna be smart about something, you should be cheery and excitable about it, as if you’re sharing a bag of snacks. The point is to share the knowledge you love, not to try and puff yourself up like a blowfish.

But I was beginning to observe how much smoother my life went if I hid my strangeness at that point, and a lot of that was shutting the hell up. So I just held my tongue, ground my teeth and sat there.

And I was rewarded for it; the conductor must have heard my psychic scream, because he introduced the song by pointing out the Civil War Folk Song rumor and then dismissing it and providing the real info.

Folks.

Mr. Grand High Cultured Muckity Muck. Went DEAD SILENT. I heard not another word from his mouth for the rest of the night. It was magnificent and I immediately had the NEW problem of not giggling and kicking my feet.

Sometimes, if you stay quiet and keep out of the way, an asshole will own THEMSELVES, and it’s glorious to witness.

[1264doghouse]

Putnam String County Band with fiddler Jay Ungar.

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

For Billy.

So, hi.

This one is for the RebelYank crowd. :)

I mean, this was kind of the obvious choice for two Civil War guys (but now I have to also give the obligatory "this is not an actual 19th century song, this was written by Jay Ungar in the 1980s" disclaimer).

I was like, "man, this would sound totally awesome and thematically appropriate as a duet!" so I arranged it for one fiddle and one classical violin... completely forgetting that Mark O'Connor and Pinchas Zukerman already arranged a violin duet version of "Ashokan Farewell" years ago. /facepalm

(It's actually Day 195 since I started playing again. I messed up my day count somewhere during the last round of missed practice sessions and I'm not really supposed to be counting anymore but I keep doing it for some reason.)

[carriehobbs]

I swear to god somewhere out there once upon a time I read a fic where nat played the violin for the detective and she played 2 songs one of which was the lover’s waltz by jay ungar. I do not remember the name of the second song nor do I remember the name of the fic to go look up the song’s name. If anyone knows what fic im talking about and this isn’t some kind of fever dream of mine please help me out

[sonokirin]

A song I've always enjoyed playing

[calicojo]

songs that rend me asunder: - viernes 3am (seru giran) - flight (peter hammill) - a louse is not a home (peter hammill) - while my guitar gently weeps (the beatles) - ashokan farewell (jay ungar) - entirety of rock bottom (robert wyatt) - entirety of chameleon in the shadow of the night (peter hammill) - catch the rainbow (rainbow) - my song (the moody blues) - jugband blues (pink floyd) - almost all of syd barrett’s solo work - childlike faith in childhood’s end (van der graaf generator) - wearing the inside out (pink floyd) - river of sleep (string driven thing) - free will and testament (robert wyatt) - the wave (van der graaf generator) - a plague of lighthouse keepers (van der graaf generator) - the undercover man (van der graaf generator) - entirety of low (david bowie) - entirety of station to station (david bowie) - entirety of meddle (pink floyd) - the comet, the course, the tail (peter hammill)

[carryonlikewedidbefore]

Now on the 3rd listen of Ramblin' On and I'm a lot more awake now.

Track 1 - Right Kind of Trouble. I do like the build at the end of Right Kind of Trouble. That is really fun.

Track 2 - Forever Ain't Long. oooooh I love the lyric 'Take me forever. Forever Ain't long" that's poetry.

Track 3 - Every Light. Such a great rhythm. Its a good road trip song with the way it rolls. Even the lyrics back it up as a road trip song. The dual images of being on the road, but not wanting to leave.

Track 4 - Ain't No Tellin'. Jensen's voice in this is amazing. And the bordering on soul sections with the choir in the back, fantastic.

Track 5 - You Made Me Blue. Such old school country. A perfect song to do the Texas Two-Step to. Lyrics-wise it has one of my favourite country music tropes, the I'm over you - good riddance song.

Track 6 - Keep on Ramblin'. How much Sturgill Simpson has Jensen been listening to? His vocal inflections are almost identical in this. Another great road trip song. The wandering cowboy kinda deal. And the guitar solo is very Willie Nelson/Django Reinhardt, Trigger would sound amazing playing it.

Track 7 - Sweet Escape. This is fun and considering the darker imagery in the lyrics with howlin at the moon, blocking out the negative voices etc its a lot more upbeat and cheery than you'd expect. Steve's voice is great and the fiddle has a sweet sound.

Track 8 - Return to Me. There is something warm about the sound in this song. The kind of track you can imagine sitting in front of a fire while listening to it, which considering the sad lyrics is an acomplishment. It feels like it finishes too suddenly though as if there should be another verse or a bridge.

Track 9 - Restless Man. Well this feels autobiographical Jensen. Considering the jetting around to different jobs he's been doing in the past couple of years and him talking about that keeping him happy, this feels more personal than the other two "being on the road" songs on the album.

Track 10 - Velvet Sky. Oh the fiddle at the start of this. Its so reminiscent of Jay Ungar and his traditional mountain music. This is probably the strongest final track of all the albums.

Over all, its a different feel from the first 2 albums since its a hell of a lot more country, but similar enough that it will weave together well if you play them shuffled. It just feels like a progression of their sound rather than a whole new beast

I think Every Light is starting to stand out at the best song on the album. Keep on Ramblin' would make an excellent single.

[take-the-hidden-paths]

Hidden Paths: Prompts (Set 2)

Here is the second set of prompts for Hidden Paths! Hopefully some of them speak to you, but if not, you are welcome to use our AO3 collection or tag the event for any fanworks based on a smaller Tolkien canon.

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Thematic Prompt: Taking Flight.

Character Based Prompt: Talking Animals.

Setting Based Prompt: Into the Woods.

Text Prompt:

“I bow not yet before the Iron Crown, nor cast my own small golden sceptre down..."

- From 'Mythopoeia' by J. R. R. Tolkien

Visual Prompt:

[Image ID: A tall, pale stone covered in patterns and runes, set in a small fenced garden, with wheat-fields beyond and a cloudy sky. /.End ID] Image credit: Unsplash stock image.

Audio Prompt: Ashokan Farewell, composed and performed by Jay Ungar.

Wildcard Prompt: Canon divergence! Change a single element from your chosen source material, and let the butterfly flap its wings...what new worlds will unfold?

For FAQs, rules, and an overview of the event, click here.

[next-hero-in-line]

Tagged by @ootlink-is-love

First 10 songs in my on repeat playlist!

Ballad of the wind fish- Tsuko G.

Roll Northumbria- The Dreadnoughts

Sun eater- Leanna Firestone

Wildflowers- The Wailin’ Jennys

Oh You are not well- Chloe Foy

Scavenger on the wind- Mangy bones

The Saints I- Dirt Poor robins

hopeless Wanderer- Mumford & Sons

The clockworks- Theophany

The blue river Waltz- Jay Ungar, Molly Mason

I don’t know who to tag for this so I tag whoever wants to join!!

[radwolf76]

I love being in IT

[silas-soule]

this is such a good piece of music i'm going to cry