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Ruth Ungar Merenda was born February 19, 1976, in
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. She is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who plays
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, ukulele and guitar. She is the daughter of fiddler/composer Jay Ungar and singer Lyn Hardy and a graduate of Bard College in
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. Her song ''Four Blue Walls'', inspired by the play ''Danny and the Deep Blue Sea'' by John Patrick Shanley was recorded by Canadian band The Duhks, on their eponymous 2005 album produced by Béla Fleck and
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. Her song ''Simple and Sober'' was recorded by Lindsay Lou on her 2018 album Southland. /sup> Ungar resides in the Hudson Valley of NY State with her husband Michael J. Merenda, Jr and their two children, Willy and Opal Merenda. The couple produce a bi-annual music festival at the Ashokan Center called The Hoot which they launched in 2013.


Bands

Ungar and
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perform as the duo Mike + Ruthy and as founding members of the folk-rock band
The Mammals The Mammals are a contemporary folk rock band based in the Hudson Valley area of New York, in the United States. The band tours internationally and consists of founding members and principal songwriters Mike Merenda (guitar, banjo) and Ruth Un ...
. They also both appear with the Jay Ungar and
Molly Mason Molly Mason is an American musician and composer and performs as a duo Jay & Molly with her husband Jay Ungar. Jay's composition, Ashokan Farewell, became the title theme of Ken Burns' The Civil War on PBS. The soundtrack won a Grammy and Ashoka ...
Family Band. From 2005 to 2009 Ungar also recorded and performed in the trio Sometymes Why (2005–2009) with Kristin Andreassen of Uncle Earl and Aoife O'Donovan of
Crooked Still Crooked Still is an American band consisting of vocalist Aoife O'Donovan, banjo player Gregory Liszt, bassist Corey DiMario, cellist Tristan Clarridge and fiddler Brittany Haas. They are known for their high energy, technical skill, unusual in ...
.


Discography


Solo

*''Jukebox'' (2002)


The Mammals

*''Born Live'' (2001) *''Evolver'' (2002) *''Migration'' (EP) (2004) *''Rock That Babe'' (2004) *''Departure'' (2006) *''Sunshiner'' (2018)


Sometymes Why

*''Sometymes Why'' (2005) *''Your Heart is a Glorious Machine'' (2009)


Mike + Ruthy

* ''The Honeymoon Agenda ''(2008) * ''Waltz of the Chickadee ''(2009) * ''Million to One ''(2010) * ''The NYC EP ''(2012)


The Mike + Ruthy Band

* ''Bright as You Can'' (2015)


Dances

At the age of twelve, she wrote the Contra dance ''The Wizard's Walk.'' It is set to music by the same name composed by her father Jay Ungar.


References


External links

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Mike + Ruthy

The Mammals

Sometymes Why
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ungar, Ruth 1976 births Living people American folk musicians American multi-instrumentalists American fiddlers American folk singers American harmonica players Jewish American musicians Singers from New York City Jewish folk singers 21st-century American singers 21st-century American violinists Sometymes Why members 21st-century American Jews Singer-songwriters from New York (state)