Apparently today (3/14) is Pi Day

In honor of Pi Day, please check out the clip below the jump. Lucy Kaplansky is one of my favorite current-day folk singers. I have seen her perform numerous times. her father was a mathematician, and he wrote “a song about Pi”, where the notes correspond to the starting digits of the eternal Pi. I have seen Kaplansky perform this, and it was a funny moment: I saw her perform at Maxwell’s once, in Hoboken, and someone requested “Song About Pi”, and she was so touched, it took her so aback – this is not a song she has ever recorded, but over the years it has become a fan favorite. also, the fact that her father (a man she obviously loved very much) wrote it.

So, in honor of Pi Day, here is Lucy Kaplansky singing her dad’s song “Song About Pi”. so glad it was on Youtube. the second I saw it was Pi Day, I thought of Lucy Kaplansky and her father.

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