78 years old (Born on November 14, 1946)
Happy Birthday, Jay Ungar! May your special day be filled with more joy than a fiddle jam session and smoother than those legendary melodies you crafted. Your journey from strumming with the Putnam County Band to rocking stages alongside Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys proves you've always known how to strike exactly the right chord.Here's hoping this birthday brings tunes as timelessly playful as "Ashokan Farewell"—a melody so classic even fiddles blush when they're asked to play it again. Keep on composing magic, Jay; after all these years in folk music royalty, no one deserves another encore more than you!