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Traveling Music 4-7-19

Traveling Music

Date: 4-7-19, repeated from 7-29-18

Shonti Elder

 

Format:  Tune Title

Performer / Composer

Album Title

Recording Company

Length

 

This Beggar’s Heart

Darrell Scott / Darrell Scott

Hands Across the Water

Compass Records

5:09

 

Home is Where the Heart Is

The Red Clay Ramblers / Mike Craver

Steal This Disc

Ryko

2:15

 

Stand By Me

Roger Ridley and 34 others / Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

Playing for Change

Playingforchange.com

5:11

 

Get Through It

Jon Randall, Mairtin O’Connor, Alison Brown / Jon Randall

Hands Across the Water

Compass Records

4:31

 

If Not For You

Richie Havens / Bob Dylan

Steal This Disc

Ryko

2:42

 

Da Bird Song (instrumental)

Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia / Howard Wales

Here is the Music

Ryko

2:37

 

Standing Still

Andrea Zonn, with Flook / Sally Barris

Hands Across the Water

Compass Records

3:35

 

Once in A Very Blue Moon

Nancy Griffith / Nancy Griffith

Here is the Music

Ryko

2:31

 

Cumberland Plateau

John Cowan with the Brock McGuire Band / John Cowan, Darrell Scott

Hands Across the Water

Compass Records

2:56

 

Biko

Rocky Dawun, Keb Mo’, Cathy Jordan (of Dervish) / Peter Gabriel

Playing for Change

Playingforchange.com

4:48

 

Flight Home (instrumental)

Mark O’Connor / Mark O’Connor

Steal This Disc

Ryko

3:52

 

You Won’t Let Me Go (instrumental)

Josh White, Jr. with Robin Batteau / B. Johnson, B. Allen

Steal This Disc

Ryko

2:26

 

Part of Your History

Blue Merle with Pauline Scanlon / Luke Reynolds, Jamie Hartford

Hands Across the Water

Compass Records

3:58

 

Restless Spirit Wandering

Tim O’Brien /

Traveler

Sugar Hill

5:05

 

Jubilee Stomp

Guy Van Duser & Billy Novik

Steal This Disc

Ryko

3:01

 

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.