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Traveling Music: January 12th, 2020

Traveling Music

Date: 1-12-20

Shonti Elder

Format:  Tune Title

              Performer / Composer

              Album Title

              Recording Company

              Length

Mr. Bojangles

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Jerry Jeff Walker

Greatest Hits

Curb

3:30

Rye Straw / Say Old Man Can You Play the Fiddle

Deseret String Band / Traditional

Land of Milk and Honey

CD Baby

2:13

Grandpa Was A Carpenter

John Prine / John Prine

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Celebrating 50 Years

NGBD Records

2:13

Return To Dismal Swamp

John McEuen / John McEwen

Will The Circle: Volume 3

NGBD Records

3:23

Sandy River Belle

Bill Spence and Fennig’s All Stars String Band / Traditional

Bill Spence and Fennig’s All Stars String Band

Front Hall

1:51

Buffalo Hump (Confrontation with the Tetons)

Freight Train

Headwater

3:06

Impressionists 2-step

Pop Wagner / Pop Wagner

3:09

Diamond Jo / Boatin Up the Sandy

Deseret String Band /

Land of Milk and Honey

CD Baby

2:55

Bully of the Town

Holy Modal Rounders /

Holy Modal Rounders 1 & 2

Fantasy

3:04

Bound to Lose

Holy Modal Rounders

4:19

Icy Mountain (instrumental)

Improbabillies / Traditional

Improbabillies

CD Baby

3:12

High Dad in the Morning (instrumental)

Dillard Hartford Dillard / John Hartford

Glitter Grass from the Nashwood Hollyville Strings and Permanent Wave

Flying Fish

2:49

In the Jailhouse Now

Steve Forbert / Traditional

2:52

Farewell to Trion (instrumental)

Darol Anger / Darol Anger

5:01

Two Rivers / Uncle Gizmo

Sam Bartlett / Sam Bartlett

4:30

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.