Mother-Daughter String Band!

photo by David Hornung

Rosie

Abby

Lyn

Ruth

The Mother-Daughter Stringband

Lyn Hardy & Abby Newton

& their daughters

Ruth Ungar Merenda & Rosie Newton.

Fiddles, cello, guitar, National steel ukelele, banjo and lots of great

harmony singing

with an old and new folk repertoire.

photo by Bill Spence

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.