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Traveling Music 8-18-19

Traveling Music

Date: 8-18-19   

Shonti Elder

Format:  Tune Title

              Performer / Composer

              Album Title

              Recording Company

              Length

You Can Do This Hard Thing

Carrie Newcomer / Carrie Newcomer

The Beautiful Not Yet

www.carrienewcomer.com

4:08

Long Gone

Bill Morrissey / Bill Morrisey

Bill Morrissey: The Essential Collection

Rounder

3:41

You and I

The Duhks / Paul Brady

The Duhks

Sugar Hill

3:50

Never Gonna Stop This Train

James Keelaghan / James Keelaghan

Recent Future

Festival Distribution

3:46

Sailing to Philadelphia

Mark Knopfler and James Taylor / Mark Knopfler

Sailing to Philadelphia

Warner Brothers

5:29

The Lost Word – instrumental

Scott Nygaard / Scott Nygaard

Dreamer’s Waltz

Rounder

4:07

Long Journey

Sarah Jarosz / Sarah Jarosz

Song Up In Her Head

Sugar Hill

5:16

Small Town on the River

Bill Morrissey / Bill Morrisey

Bill Morrissey: The Essential Collection

Rounder

3:57

Lean In to the Light

Carrie Newcomer / Carrie Newcomer

The Beautiful Not Yet

www.carrienewcomer.com

3:53

Dance As You Go

James Keelaghan / James Keelaghan

Recent Future

Festival Distribution

3:12

Love is the Seventh Wave

The Duhks / Sting

The Duhks

Sugar Hill

3:25

Early Morning Light

Sarah Jarosz / Sarah Jarosz

Undercurrent

Sugar Hill

Cold Missouri Waters

James Keelaghan / James Keelaghan

History: The First 25 Years

BorealisRecords.com

4:59

Evening Shade - instrumental

Scott Nygaard / Traditional

Dreamer’s Waltz

Rounder

2:07

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.