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Traveling Music 4-21-19

Traveling Music

Date: 4-21-19

Shonti Elder

 

Format:  Tune Title

Performer / Composer

Album Title

Recording Company

Length

 

Pacific Waltz

Mike Mickelson / Mike Mickelson

Pacific Waltz

M_mickelson1@yahoo.com

3:10

 

Tell Me Their Story

Alice Gerrard / Alice Gerrard

Bittersweet

Spruce and Maple Music

3:33

 

Trail of Tears

The Bills / Chris Frye, Marc Atkinson

Trail of Tears

Borealisrecords.com

3:26

 

The Fisherman

Mike Mickelson / Mike Mickelson

Pacific Waltz

M_mickelson1@yahoo.com

2:49

 

My Proud Mountains

John T. Van Zandt / Townes Van Zandt

A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Poet

TVZ Records

4:51

 

Rising From the Ashes

John Cowan / John McFee, Andre Pessis

Sixty

Compass Records

4:07

 

Easy Rider

Eliza Gilkyson / Eliza Gilkyson

Your Town Tonight

Red House Records

5:30

 

All the Good Ones Are Taken

Mike Mickelson / Mike Mickelson

Pacific Waltz

M_mickelson1@yahoo.com

3:48

 

Payday at the Mill

Alice Gerrard / Alice Gerrard

Bittersweet

Spruce and Maple Music

3:19

 

Icy Mountain / Blind Steer in a Mudhole – fiddle instrumentals

Pete Sutherland / Traditional

Streak O’Lean

Epactmusic.com / epact music

2:44

 

Why Are You Crying?

John Cowan / Rick Roberts

Sixty

Compass Records

2:51

 

Pancho and Lefty

Delbert McClinton / Townes Van Zandt

A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Poet

TVZ Records

4:06

 

She Went Up

The Bills / Chris Frye, Adrian Dolan, Marc Atkinson

Trail of Tears

Borealisrecords.com

2:37

 

Unexpected Love

Alice Gerrard / Alice Gerrard

Bittersweet

Spruce and Maple Music

2:16

 

She Don’t Like My Coffee

Mike Mickelson / Mike Mickelson

Pacific Waltz

M_mickelson1@yahoo.com

2:31

 

Happy Be

The Bills / White

Trail of Tears

Borealisrecords.com

1:15

 

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.