Ashokan Farewell from The Civil War by Jay Unger Sheet music and easy violin tutorial

Paxton Kendall performs Ashokan Farewell for the board. Paxton recently qualified for the PMEA All-State Orchestra. They will be performing at the PMEA conference on April 11 in the Poconos. | Albert Gallatin Area School District

“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