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Traveling Music 4-26-15

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

4-26-15

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Willow Girl (Willow Girl, The Field in the Forest, The Windy Hemlock) - instrumentals

Crowfoot / Adam Broome, Adam Broome, Jaige Trudel

Nadajai

www.crowfootmusic.com

5:05

 

Make Me Lonely Again

Red Molly / Red MollyS

Love and Other Tragedies

Red Molly

4:43

 

Play Me A Song I Can Cry To

Alice Gerrard / Alice Gerrard

Bittersweet

Spruce and Maple Music

4:30

 

Nellie Darling

Norris Bowers Band / Scott Norris

Gin Chicken

www.norrisbowersband.com

4:46

 

Black is the Color

Rhiannon Giddens / traditional, arr. Giddens

Tomorrow is My Turn

Nonesuch

3:45

 

Sail Away Ladies (instrumental)

Grant Dermody / traditional

Sun Might Shine on Me

www.grantdermody.org

2:02

 

Shake Sugaree

Rhiannon Giddens / Elizabeth Cotten

Tomorrow is My Turn

Nonesuch

3:34

 

Lay Down Sally

Byron Berline band / Eric Clapton

Live at the Music Hall

Double Stop Music

2:11

 

Live and Let Live

Byron Berline band / Wiley Walker, Gene Sullivan

Live at the Music Hall

Double Stop Music

3:01

 

Over the Hills

Lucy Kaplansky

Our Side of Town

Red House Records

3:45

 

A la claire fontaine

Crowfoot / traditional Breton

Footpath

www.crowfootmusic.com

5:17

 

Spanish Mary


  1. Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Goldsmith, James and

Mumford / Bob Dylan, Rhiannon Giddens

The New Basement Tapes

www.thenewbasementtapes.com

5:31

Shonti was born in India to teacher parents, who named her a common Indian name which means peace. She has degrees from Oberlin, Boston University and UAA. She began at KSKA as a volunteer in 1978 and has had an acoustic music show ever since, during her tenure as board member (and president), and 13 years on staff as first volunteer coordinator and then operations director along with that for five years. Her current volunteer program is Traveling Music. Shonti is also a professional fiddler, and has several CD’s of original music with her friend Will Putman. She lives in the Valley with her husband Bill Frey, and has two musical children, Kluonie and Devin.