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Jay Ungar

Jay Ungar, born November 14, 1946, in New York City, is an American fiddle player and composer. Raised on traditional Macedonian and Hungarian music, he turned to bluegrass and American folk after high school, joined bands like Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys and the Putnam String County Band in the 1960s. In the 1970s, Ungar performed at New York's Towne Crier club, where he met Molly Mason, who later became his wife and musical partner. He founded the Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps in the early 1980s. He gained prominence when "Ashokan Farewell" from Fiddle Fever's album Walt...