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Traveling Music 12-9-18

Traveling Music

Date: 12-9-18

Kluonie Frey (Shonti Elder – engineer)

 

Format:  Tune Title

Performer / Composer

Album Title

Recording Company

Length

 

Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo

Kate Rusby / Kate Rusby

Angels and Men

Pure Records

4:48

 

O Christmas Tree

Ann Reed / lyrics Ann Reed, music trad.

(Not Your Average) Holiday CD

Turtlecub

3:33

 

Deck The Halls

Border Brass / Traditional

Tijuana Christmas

Seasonal

2:13

 

Carol of the Banjos - instrumental

Beta Radio / Trad.

Songs the Season Brings

Beta Radio

1:27

 

Wasaill Song

Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum / Trad.

Winter’s Grace

Signature Sounds

3:31

 

Don Oiche ud I mBeithil

Dordan / Trad.

A Night Before A Celtic Christmas

Narada

2:55

 

We’ll Sing Hallelujah

Kate Rusby / Kate Rusby

Angels and Men

Pure Records

4:16

 

Christmastime is Here

Afro Blue / Vince Guaraldi

The Sing-Off Songs of the Season

Epic

2:52

 

Danse of the Sugarplum Fairies

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones / adapted from Tchaikovsky

Jingle All The Way

Rounder

3:30

 

Awake, Awake

Waterson-Carthy / Trad.

Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man

Topic

4:08

 

The Huron Carol

Heather Dale / Trad.

This Endris Night

Amphis Music

3:45

 

Balulalow

Karine Polwart, Kevin McGuire and Rory Campbell / Trad.

Cold Blow These Winter Winds

Compass

3:04

 

River - instrumental

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones / Joni Mitchell

Jingle All The Way

Rounder

3:46

 

The Little Jack Frost

Kate Rusby / Kate Rusby

Angels and Men

Pure Records

4:32

 

The Rebel Jesus

Jackson Brown with the Chieftans / Jackson Brown

Bells of Dublin

Sony Legacy

3:48

 

Sleighride - instrumental

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones / Leroy Anderson

Jingle All The Way

Rounder

3:30

 

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.