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Traveling Music 2-3-19

Traveling Music

Date: 2-3-19

Shonti Elder

 

Format:  Tune Title

Performer / Composer

Album Title

Recording Company

Length

 

How Can I Keep From Singing?

Laurie Lewis /Trad.

Blossoms

www.laurielewis.com

2:43

 

All For the Sake Of Day

Cahalen Morrison and Eli West / Cahalen Morrison

Our Lady of the Tall Trees

www.cahalenandeli.com

3:34

 

Tell Me True

Sarah Jarosz / Sarah Jarosz

Song Up in her Head

Sugar Hill

4:08

 

Off the Shelf

Western Centuries / E. Lawton

Weight of the World

Westerncenturies.com

5:47

 

The Roughest Road

Laurie Lewis / Laurie Lewis

Blossoms

www.laurielewis.com

4:24

 

Pocket Full of Dust

Cahalen Morrison and Eli West / Cahalen Morrison

I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands

www.cahalenandeli.com

4:07

 

Song Up in her Head

Sarah Jarosz / Sarah Jarosz

Song Up in her Head

Sugar Hill

2:42

 

Weight of The World

Western Centuries / Cahalen Morrison

Weight of the World

Westerncenturies.com

3:23

 

Unfinished Life

Laurie Lewis / Kate Wolf

Blossoms

www.laurielewis.com

4:55

 

The Flower of Muscle Shoals

Cahalen Morrison & Country Hammer / Cahalen Morrison

Country Hammer

Free Dirt Records

2:20

 

Everything to Hide

Sarah Jarosz / Sarah Jarosz

Undercurrent

Sugar Hill

3:23

 

Like A Stone

Cahalen Morrison and Eli West / Cahalen Morrison

Our Lady of the Tall Trees

www.cahalenandeli.com

3:25

 

Here Today

Laurie Lewis / Scott Huffman

Blossoms

www.laurielewis.com

5:04

 

Green Pastures

Cahalen Morrison and Eli West / H. W. Vanhoose

I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands

www.cahalenandeli.com

3:24

 

Cool Your Jets

Laurie Lewis / Laurie Lewis

Blossoms

www.laurielewis.com

2:26

 

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.