Most people recognize this beautiful tune as the "theme song" of the Ken Burns series 'The Civil War.'
"Ashokan Farewell was named for Ashokan, a camp in the Catskill Mountains not far from Woodstock, New York. It's the place where Molly Mason and I (Jay Unger) have run the Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps for adults and families since 1980.
Ashokan is the name of a town, most of which is now under a very beautiful and magical body of water called the Ashokan Reservoir. I've heard it pronounced a-shó-kun, a-shó-kan, or sometimes ásh-o-kán. The reservoir provides drinking water for New York City one hundred miles to the south."
According to PronounceNames.com the emphasis is on the second syllable: uh-SHO-kun. They have a YouTube video giving the audio pronunciation and a written example. It's at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSzfqjMeZro
Farewell Fran ('Mama's Family' - Seasons and Episodes)
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