Ungar, Mason & friends
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Many southerners were of Irish and Scottish heritage. They brought their tunes and culture with them. Many had left Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries because the Brits had oppressed them and stole their land. For various reasons many migrated to territory south of Mason Dixon line — and stole the land and oppressed people. Very sentimental.
Not the Brits, the English…
I'd like to send a shout-out to all the Southern Governors who would like for us to believe that the Confederacy stood for noble things and how tourists to those states should pay homage to that misunderstood time.
Oh, and I'd like for all the ghosts of slaves and all the ancestors of slaves to simply forget that bit of nastiness that led up to the Civil War. I was all a misunderstanding.
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(Apologies for the long post; Mandela died yesterday and I'm in a strange mood today.) ....................................................................................................................................
Sasha2001, with all respect, no one should ever forget slavery and the "bit of nastiness" our nation went through to eliminate that affront against humanity. We should also constantly remind ourselves that it took another 100 years before basic Constitutional rights were provided to the descendants of slaves.
But I am a son of the Southland, so please allow my differing viewpoint. Not saying it's right or wrong; just different.
I do not own slaves; neither did my parents nor my grandparents (decent records not available beyond them), nor any Southern governors since 1865. Do not stereotype Southerners, and (my god!) avoid applying the broad brush of racism to all of us.
The stance taken by the South in 1861 was to support slavery -- no attempt to dodge that. The raw fact is that most Southern plantations could not operate profitably without free labor. If slavery was illegal, the Southern economy was doomed to fail, as clearly demonstrated for 75 years after the War.
Was all this "nastiness" a complete loss? No; emphatically no! Look up "state's rights", "nullification", "voter eligibility", and "separate but equal" for examples of how we have moved forward. You can also credit advances in weaponry to this war: repeating firearms, more accurate artillery, steel (iron) warships, and the invention of submarines. (Even if you oppose war, those advances are a fact.) And personally, I believe this war solidly cemented the Union for ever and ever until the end of time.
As for tourism, many of the battlefields from the War between the States are now US national parks and landmarks -- that is, operated, maintained, and staffed by 21st-century employees of the United States of America. I hope they believe, as I do, that these locations are significant to our national history. Americans on both sides shed blood, lost limbs, and died.
I have visited several of these battlefields and am always overwhelmed by the imagined cacophony and confusion of a life-and-death battle contrasted against the pastoral quiet of the present-day rural settings. If you have the opportunity, I encourage you to visit one, too. They are holy places, consecrated by the blood of those who helped form my nation as it is today.
Who knows? Was our painful struggle necessary for the end of apartheid and the now-universal concept of human rights?
With love from the heart of Yankeeland, unclehud
There's a small resemblance between the two songs .
Maybe it was on wikipedia or on allmusic that I read this but Ungar composed this for the last day of a music festival or camp in upstate NY in the early 80s. And as note by others, Irish and Scottish music influences are a big part of American folk music. This continues to this day in the world of contra dance music which is usually string-oriented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Ungar
Many southerners were of Irish and Scottish heritage. They brought their tunes and culture with them. Many had left Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries because the Brits had oppressed them and stole their land. For various reasons many migrated to territory south of Mason Dixon line — and stole the land and oppressed people. Very sentimental.
This one just soars... so beautiful.
I came here to say the same :) Gorgeous piece.
It's the same Ashokan.
To my understanding, a large amount of American Appalachian folk music has its basis in Scottish and Irish tunes.
Very true. You can see it in clogging vs. Irish step dancing. So may deep pockets of Irish and Scots settled in what were once very hard to reach areas of KY, TN, VA and WV.
maybe Jay Ungay played around with it, see link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashokan_Farewell