Ruth Ungar
Ruth Ungar Merenda was born February 19, 1976, in Mount Kisco, New York. She is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who plays fiddle, ukulele and guitar. She is the daughter of fiddler/composer Jay Ungar and singer Lyn Hardy and a graduate of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. 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 Gary Paczosa. Her song Simple and Sober was recorded by Lindsay Lou on her 2018 album Southland. [1]

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 Merenda perform as the duo Mike + Ruthy and as founding members of the folk-rock band The Mammals. They also both appear with the Jay Ungar and Molly Mason 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. 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

 Mike + Ruthy 
The Mammals
 Sometymes Why

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 singer-songwriters
21st-century American violinists
American women violinists
Sometymes Why members
21st-century American Jews
Singer-songwriters from New York (state)