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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 SUNY New Paltz in Upstate New York.
Jay's composition, Ashokan Farewell, became the title theme of Ken Burns' The Civil War [1] on PBS. The soundtrack won a Grammy and Ashokan Farewell was nominated for an Emmy. [2] Mason grew up in Washington state. She plays traditional American fiddle and acoustic bass guitar. She is married to Jay Ungar, whom she had first met during the 1970s.
Although he performs with David Bromberg, he is probably best known for "Ashokan Farewell" (1982), composed as a lament, [3] and used as the theme tune to the Ken Burns documentary The Civil War (1990). Many of his other compositions are familiar as contradance tunes, notably "The Wizard's Walk."
How can it be coming out of "a sense of loss and longing" after the annual Ashokan Music & Dance Camps ended, when it was played regularly AT the Ashokan Music & Dance Camps? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.247.115 15:12, 13 October 2022 (UTC) If you have concrete suggestion for improving the article, please make it here.
Ashokan Edicts in Delhi, edicts of the Indian emperor; Ashoka Chakra or Ashokan Chakra, a symbol on the Indian flag; Ashokan Prakrit, Indic language of the Prakrit class during the period of emperor Ashoka; Pillars of Ashoka or Ashokan Pillars, series of monolithic columns erected by the Indian emperor "Ashokan Farewell", a song
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