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Ashokan Farewell" / ə ˈ ʃ oʊ ˌ k æ n / is a musical piece composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason , who named the tune after the Ashokan Field Campus (now the Ashokan Center ) of ...
18 gru 2021 · “Ashokan” refers to the Ashokan Reservoir, which is located a short distance from the site of the camp and supplies 40% of New York City’s Water. It was created by damming part of the Esopus Valley in 1915, and it currently covers 10,000 acres.
25 wrz 2015 · 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.
28 wrz 2015 · The song is a thoroughly Catskills tune, the story notes. It was named for the Ashokan summer camp, as well as the Ashokan Reservoir in Ulster county and the drowned town of the same name beneath the reservoir's waters:
The Ashokan reservoir is a huge expanse of water some 150 miles north of the city, and not far from the spot where Jay Ungar and Molly Mason have run a ‘fiddle and dance’ camp annually for more than thirty years.
21 sie 2016 · The Music. Ashokan Farewell was named after a town under the same name. The purpose was also for a camp named after the town, which is up in the Catskill Mountains, New York. There both Ungar and Mason have run their Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camps for families, which began in 1980.
4 lip 2024 · The song’s title, Ashokan Farewell, holds symbolic significance. Ashokan refers to Ashokan Center, located in upstate New York, where the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camp is held. The camp brings together musicians, dancers, and enthusiasts of traditional folk music.
