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Traveling Music 4-3-16

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

4-3-16

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Without My Walking Stick

Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / Irving Berlin

Live

www.laurielewis.com

6:19

 

Green Pastures

Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt / Brian Ahern

Live on KSWM

Laser Media

3:20

 

Did You Hear John Hurt?

Dave Von Ronk / Tom Paxton

Greenwich Village Folk Festival 1989-1990

Gadfly Records

2:30

 

Motherless Child

Blind Boys of Alabama / William E. Barton

Revisited

Calvin Records

6:31

 

I Rose up at the Dawn of Day

Martha Redbone Roots Project / music Martha Redbone, lyrics William Blake

The Garden of Love: Songs by William Blake

www.martharedbone.com

3:09

 

Summertime

Eva Cassidy /George Gershwin

Somewhere

Blix Street

3:04

 

Another Swing and a Miss

Andrea Zonn /Peter Cooper, Thomm Jutz, Andrea Zonn

Rise

Compass Records

2:58

 

Little Wing (instrumental)

Phillips, Grier & Flinner / Hendrix

Looking Back

Compass Records

7:35

 

Singing in the Dark

Brooks Williams / Brooks Williams

Nectar

Signature Sounds

3:54

 

The Cape

Eric Bibb (with Martin Simpson) / Guy Clark

Friends

Telarc

3:24

 

All I Left Behind

Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt / Kate and Anna McGarrigle

Live on KSWM

Laser Media

3:42

 

Walking Blues

Guy Davis / Robert Johnson

Greenwich Village Folk Festival 1989-1990

Gadfly Records

3:30

 

99 1/2 Won't Do

Eric Bibb (with Guy Davis) / Rev. E. W. Clayborn, Trad

Friends

Telarc

3:35

 

Early One Morning

Eva Cassidy / Eva Cassidy, Rob Cooper

Somewhere

Blix Street

2:20

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.