“Ashokan Farewell” was written by fiddler Jay Ungar and featured in the Ken Burns documentary The Civil War, and it has become a favorite of all sorts of instrumentalists. Bill Evans teaches the tune this month in his Bluegrass Banjo course. It’s a beautiful, slow melody and Bill plays it in a “chord solo” style (as he does in his “Amazing Grace” lesson), rather than the usual roll-based bluegrass banjo style. https://www.pegheadnation.com/string-school/courses/bluegrass-banjo . . . . #banjo #bl

“Ashokan Farewell” from Ken Burns’ Civil War @PBS documentary. Played while a letter is read from a dying Union soldier to his wife back home. #sacrifice #comingtogether #music #violin #fiddle #ashokanfarewell #kenburns #pbs #kenburnseffect #fiddlecamp #civilwar | Carrie Sheffield