A Civil War Tribute on the Music Stand

PBS-TV stations nationwide last week aired filmmaker Ken Burns’ award-winning 1990 documentary series The Civil War, commemorating the 150^th anniversary of the first shots in that bloody chapter in US history.

Fiddler Jay Ungar composed the haunting theme song, “Ashokan Farewell,” which played a big role setting the mood of the documentary. Twenty-five versions of the fiddle tune, including the plaintive solo-fiddle version, can be heard throughout... Continue

Added by Greg Cahill on Apr 18, 2011 at 1:24pm –