"Ashokan Farewell" A Violin Song

"Ashokan Farewell" is a beautiful song played by Chris at a benefit to raise money to send iPods to US soldiers overseas.

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Music

Tags:

• Ashokan
• Farewell
• Violin
• Song
• Chris
• tunes
• for
• troops

[cattykiss]

wow that was amazing! beautiful song and i think its best played about this tempo.

[RainbowSpoot]

I'm playing this in school :]

[Destiny4511]

Really, the biggest problem is in the title; there's no such thing as "A Violin Song".

Songs have lyrics... "tunes" have only melodies.

It might be a "Fiddle Tune", or a "violin piece", but until it's sung by someone, it's not a "song".

And there HAVE been lyrics written to this, long after it was composed, but they're a little cheesey. Fiind them at jayandmolly com website

[cmkraft1]

this is really good, nicely done. you have nice tone quality :)

[TheJeffdabomb]

I hope I can play like this one day :)

[nccfiddlar]

screw the tempo...he was about 50/50...as a young artist...his nuts and bolts were there...but his technique or style needed some help...no shame...i saw impatience in belief of himself and furthermore he needed to prove to the crowd that he knew what he was doing, which i never felt...technically great performance...but artistically...needs help in interpretation...

[edbogus]

Beautiful Haunting tune...Chris, you nailed it

[TheBuilder65]

@ iamlondon

If your going to make a comment like "Not great I'm afraid" about this video then please post a video of you playing it the "right" way.

But your not gonna do that are you?? Your the type of "critic" who loves to say how it should be played, but in fact you can't play much of anything yourself. Do the world a favor and STFU! I very much doubt that your a master at your instrument, if in fact you even play one.

[Ristaron]

Agreed. How about money to rebuild the shattered lives this bogus "war on terror" has caused and bring the troops home so they can listen to iPods here?

Whatever.

Beautiful playing, though personally I didn't really like the change Chris made near the end. That crescendo just doesn't seem -- to me, at least -- to fit with the rest of the song.

All the same, well done.

[bhofacre]

beautiful...

[Skunkeeh]

Great cause my ace! Ipods for soldiers?

0_o How 'bout money for their families who are barely getting by because part of their family is gone?? But..It's great playing, I've been playing violin for a while now and I started learning this piece. It's much simplier than it sounds.

[superikkikun]

I played this at a concert, it was so crap -.-