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Traveling Music 3-9-14

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

3-9-14

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Banish Misfortune (instrumental)

Darol Anger with Martin Hayes / Traditional

Diary of a Fiddler

Compass Records

3:19

 

White Dress

Cathie Ryan / Dave Swarwick, Ralph McTell

Cathie Ryan

Shanachie

3:23

 

Death and the Lady

Nancy Conescu / Traditional

Wild Blossoms

Stinging Nettles Music

3:17

 

Strange News

Karine Polwart / Karine Polwart

Traces

Hegric

5:09

 

Braigh Lochiall (instrumental)

Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Haas / Traditional Scottish love song

Abundance

Culburnie Records

2:45

 

You and I in the One Bed Lie

Cathie Ryan / Traditional

Cathie Ryan

Shanachie

2:55

Ceol NaNolag (instrumental)

John Whelan / John Whelan

Celtic Crossroads

Narada

2:56

 

Sticks and Stones

Karine Polwart / Karine Polwart

Traces

Hegric

5:18

 

Sean (instrumental)

Tony Trischka

Territory

Smithsonian Folkways

1:59

 

The Mind of A Soldier

Red Molly / Red Molly

Love and Other Tragedies

www.redmolly.com

3:53

 

New Year's Day

Monica Lettner

Our House Is Full

www.CovenantHouseAK.org

6:05

 

Northern Star

Ann Reed / Ann Reed

Through the Window

www.annreed.com

4:12

 

Walk Beside Me

Red Molly / Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott

Light in the Sky

www.redmolly.com

3:08

 

Voodoo Chile

Darol Anger with Bruce Molsky / Jimi Hendrix

Diary of a Fiddler

Compass Records

3:58

 

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.