Mother Daughter String Band

Lyn Hardy, Abby Newton and their daughters, Ruthy Ungar Merenda and Rosie Newton.
Fiddles, cello, banjo, National Steel Ukelele, and guitar and wonderful songs with both old and new folk repetoir.

And Oh! The harmonies

A 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 with her husband Michael Merenda and Rosie has been fiddling in a new trio called "The Pearly Snaps" in Ithaca where she goes to college.


Rosie               Ruthy              Abby             Lyn

For bookings email
lyn@lynhardy.com