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Jay Ungar, Molly Mason

The Pleasures Of Winter

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Folk Alley Sessions: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band, "Ashokan Farewell"
The Lover's Waltz, Jay Ungar & Molly Mason

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10/05/2019 - Sounding Board Coffeehouse / West Hartford, CT
10/06/2019 - Middleburgh Public Library / Middleburgh, NY
1 Cold Nights of Winter / Trettondagsmarschen  
2 A Rovin' On a Winter's Night  
3 The Unbroken Thread  
4 Twenty Below  
5 Valse de Jeunes Filles / Valse des Jouets  
6 Sermonette  
7 Christmas Eve  
8 Lights of Chanukah  
9 Boda Waltz  
10 The Frostbite Set  
11 Darkest Days, Brightest Nights  
12 Midnight Hour Blues  
13 Settin' By the Fire  
14 The Solstice Set  
15 Zat You Santa Claus?  
16 The Snowstorm  
17 Silent Night Two Step  
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The Pleasures Of Winter is music for Winter and the Holiday Season featuring Jay & Molly's live performances from their annual Public Radio program with a variety of great musicians making guest appearances in the house band including: Harry Aceto, David Bromberg, Peter Davis, Peter Ecklund, Laurel Mass, Brian Melick, Michael Merenda, Ruth Ungar Merenda, Kate Pierson, Steve Rust, Butch Thompson, Tony Trischka and Sam Zucchini.

14 New ON this week Total 132
Synd: Folkscene, Undercurrents, VIP Broadcasting
Direct: SiriusXM/The Village, ALLMUSICTV
Markets include: New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Atlanta, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Houston, Austin, Portland, Indianapolis, Berkeley CA, Memphis, Columbus OH, Madison WI, Louisville
Online: Guru, LCR, Folk Image

  • Jay Ungar, Molly Mason and Swingology set for NYEve broadcast live from the Ashokan Performance Hall / 101.5WPDH
    Posted At: December 18, 2020 12:00 AM

    I think we've all had just about enough of 2020. Global pandemic, historic fires, hurricanes, blizzards, nasty politics. So, what is the best way to greet the new year and do it safely? How about attending an online party with great music? And even dancing if you feel like it. The Ashokan Center in Olive Bridge will be hosting Auld Lang Zoom on Thursday, Dec. 31 starting at 9PM. Local favorites Jay U...
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  • First-ever Ashokan Bluegrass Camp wraps up as a great success / Bluegrass Today
    Posted At: October 30, 2018 12:00 AM

    The Ashokan Center in New York recently hosted their initial bluegrass camp, after successfully holding instructional camps for old time, klezmer, and other forms of traditional music and dance in Saugerties, NY. Faculty included Tony Trischka teaching banjo, Claire Lynch working with vocalists, Matt Flinner for mandolin, Becky Buller for fiddle, Scott Nygaard for guitar, and Mike Bub for bass. A number ...
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  • Jay Ungar and Molly Mason present an evening of music and storytelling at Colebrook Historical Society / Litchfield County Times
    Posted At: July 26, 2018 12:00 AM

    On Saturday, July 28, at 7 p.m., the Colebrook Historical Society will host Jay Ungar and Molly Mason in concert. Jay and Molly are one of the most celebrated duos on the American acoustic music scene. They'll present an evening of music and storytelling, with Jay on fiddle and Molly on piano and guitar said a press release from the society. Jay Ungar is perhaps best known as the composer of Ashokan ...
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  • Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, in town for 'Dennos Museum Concert Series,' stop by Classical IPR
    Posted At: January 13, 2017 12:00 AM

    Jay Ungar and Molly Mason will perform tonight at Milliken Auditorium in Traverse City MI as part of the Dennos Museum Concert Series. You can also hear them live in Studio A today at 12:06 PM on Classical IPR. Mason and Ungar have been musical collaborators since the late 1970s, and they married in 1991. They perform and record traditional American folk music as well as original compositions. Ungar and ...
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  • The Story Behind the tune Ken Burns made famous
    Posted At: September 25, 2015 12:00 AM

    It's haunting and mournful and hopeful and beautiful. It's called "Ashokan Farewell," and it's the de facto theme song for the Ken Burns miniseries The Civil War, which premiered 25 years ago this week. "Ashokan Farewell" was not, as both its tune and the miniseries that made it famous would seem to suggest, written in the 19th century. It was written instead at the tail end of the 20th. And it wasn'...
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  • Jay Ungar discusses 'Ashokan Farewell' and the music from Ken Burns - 'The Civil War / Newsday
    Posted At: September 12, 2015 12:00 AM

    As the PBS' and Ken Burns' remastered "The Civil War" ends, what is it about the remarkable music that made this 11-hour film so indelible, then and now? Last week, Newsday spoke with Jay Ungar -- the other half of renowned folk duo, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, who also runs the celebrated Ashokan music camp in upstate Olivebridge, and has for decades. He is the one who wrote much of the music in ...
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  • Ungar/Mason are inspiring@Poughkeepsie's Barvadon Theatre
    Posted At: November 13, 2014 12:00 AM

    "Lincoln's New World" offered Poughkeepsie NY's Barvadon Theatre sold-out audience a full program last Saturday of Americana from Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" to Dvorak's "New World Symphony." The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, under the direction of maestro Randall Craig Fleischer, was joined by the duo Jay Ungar and Molly Mason and actor David Strathairn for a concert of music, folk t...
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  • The Pleasures Of Winter. Music for the Winter Season featuring Jay Ungar & Molly Mason's live performances from their annual Public Radio Program
    Posted At: October 12, 2009 12:00 AM

    The Pleasures Of Winter is music for Winter and the Holiday Season featuring Jay & Molly's live performances from their annual Public Radio program with a variety of great musicians making guest appearances in the house band including: Harry Aceto, David Bromberg, Peter Davis, Peter Ecklund, Laurel Masse, Brian Melick, Michael Merenda, Ruth Ungar Merenda, Kate Pierson, Steve Rust, Butch...
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