Take a minute, listen to this, and make your day better

The "Ashoken Farewell" an absolutely marvelous piece of music.

take your mind off things and listen

Man he can play that thing.. love watching him do these just like this him the fiddle and no more no less.

Same

Ashokan Farewell, a waltz, by Jay Ungar in 1982. theme of the PBS documentary series The Civil War.

A fellow-Kanawha Valley WV guy! I’m a big fan of Philip Bowen!!

This is probably the single greatest musical performance of all time:

The hair stood up on my arms, right through the air waves is fine with me, LOL. he is good and feels the music, as it should be the case...

@bebookled I don’t know what kind of Appalachian folk magic Jay Ungar and Molly Mason did when they wrote “Ashokan Farwell” but it sure does give me goosebumps every time I hear it. So beautiful.

expected David McCullough to start narrating halfway through …

Sounds old-timey but was created in the 1980’s.