Mother-Daughter String Band!

Special Mother's Day Weekend Concerts!

May 9th - Unitiarian Church

Corner of Buffalo and Aurora Streets in Ithaca, NY

May 10th - Old Songs Coffeehouse,

37 South Main St., Voorheesville, NY

May 11th - Kleinert/James Art Center,

34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY

The Mother-Daughter Stringband is:
Lyn Hardy & Abby Newton and their daughters Ruth Ungar Merenda & Rosie Newton. Fiddles, cello, guitar, National steel ukelele, banjo and lots of great singing on old and new folk repertoire.

Brief History:

Lyn and Abby performed and recorded together in the 1970's with John Cohen and Jay Ungar in "The Putnam String County Band."  It was in this decade that Ruth was born, into a great old-timey string band resurgence in New York's Hudson Valley. Later, Lyn moved to Western Massachusetts and toured with the all-female folk band "Rude Girls"
throughout the 1980's.  At this time Abby began playing Celtic music while touring Scotland and the US with Jean Redpath. That's when Rosie was born and she too was raised on many of the same tunes and lullabies that Ruth had absorbed earlier, like Lyn and Abby's beautiful versions of "Black Jack Davey" and "Turtle Dove."  Currently, Abby performs with the Scottish folk group "Ferintosh," Ruth plays in the contemporary string band "The Mammals," and Rosie has been fiddling in a new trio called "The Pearly Snaps" in Ithaca where she goes to college.

This Mother's Day, these four women will be joining forces for a very special weekend of concerts.  They'll be singing great mother-daughter harmonies and playing old-timey, celtic and contemporary tunes that they love.  And the third generation will be along for the ride; Ruthy had a baby boy January 28th! Now Lyn is a grandma!