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Traveling Music 2-2-20

Traveling Music

Date: 2-2-20

Shonti Elder

Big thank you to all the volunteers involved in the Anchorage Folk Festival!

Format:  Tune Title

              Performer / Composer

              Album Title

              Recording Company

              Length

Lassi

Sver / Sver

Reverie

Folkhall Records

3:25

All the King’s Horses

Dick Gaughan / Dick Gaughan

Redwood Cathedral

Greentrax

3:56

Lovely Annie

Karen Casey / Karen Casey

Two More Hours

Crow Valley Music

4:35

Guise o’Tough

Jim and Susie Malcolm / Traditional Scottish

The Berries

Beltane Records

4:59

E14

Sver / Sver

Reverie

Folkhall Records

3:53

When I’m Gone

Dick Gaughan / Phil Ochs

Outlaws and Dreamers

Appleseed

3:43

Four Loom Weaver

Karan Casey / Traditional

Distant Shore

Shanachie

3:51

Gloomy Winter

Jim and Susie Malcolm / Robert Tanahill

The Berries

Beltane Records

4:43

Walk Away

Eliza Carthy / Ben Harper

Red

Topic Records

3:35

Fire in the Glen

Andy M. Stewart, Phil Cunningham, Manus Lunny / Andy M. Stewart

Fire In The Glen

Shanachie

7:60

The Twa Gadgies

Jim and Susie Malcolm / Traditional travellers

The Berries

Beltane Records

4:35

Ferry Me Over

Andy M. Stewart, Phil Cunningham, Manus Lunny / Andy M. Stewart

Fire In The Glen

Shanachie

5:54

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.