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MEET jAY & MOLLY
It started with a chance meeting in the late 1970s. Jay & Molly were each performing at the Towne Crier, a rural New York club.
He was a Bronx kid.
She grew up in Washington State.
He was raised on pop music of the 1940s and ’50s.
She had a fondness for traditional fiddle music and ’30s and ’40s popular tunes.
He hung out in Greenwich Village coffeehouses and roamed North Carolina and Tennessee in search of traditional players.
She played clubs and colleges on the West Coast and took a liking to the jazzy sound of the Swing Era.
Since joining forces—both artistically and romantically—Jay Ungar and Molly Mason have become one of the most celebrated duos on the American acoustic music scene.
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The Ashokan Center
In 2006 Molly Ungar and Jay Mason learned that SUNY New Paltz was on the brink of selling the Ashokan Field Campus to a potential developer.
Ungar, Mason and long-time Fiddle & Dance attendees quickly formed the Ashokan Foundation, a new nonprofit designed to save this 385-acre historic nature preserve that had inspired “Ashokan Farewell.”
“The mission of the Ashokan Center is to inspire learning and build community through shared experiences in nature, history, music, and art. School groups come for day and overnight field trips.”Ashokan Music & Dance Camps, formerly Fiddle & Dance, expanded to about a dozen camps for adults and families each year. Numerous public festivals and events such as the Summer Hoot and Winter Hoot began to make the inspirational and healing magic of Ashokan available to the surrounding community and beyond.
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