In response to Tim's comment about the relationship between Doodletown Fifers and Ashokan Farewell. I don't know where that notion originated, but I do know that Ashokan Farewell was not written specifically for the Civil War Series. From what I have read, including notes on the sheet music, Jay Ungar composed it in recent years. and the Ashokan referred to is a little lake in the Catskills, near Kingston, NY, where Unger used to spend his summers. The Civil War series really made it famous, I don't think there's a traditional fiddler anywhere who doesn't do it.

Jack Hickman