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Traveling Music 6-22-14

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

6-22-14

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

The Argument

Marian Bradfield / Marian Bradfield

Celtic Heart - Tales of True Love

St. Clair Entertainment Group

3:27

 

The Foggy Dew

The Chieftains with Sinead O'Connor / Traditional

The Wide World Over

RCA

5:01

 

Jack Haggerty

Touchstone / Traditional

Her Ifinite Variety - Celtic Women in Music and Song

Green Linnet

2:55

 

I Will Find You (theme from Last of the Mohicans)

Clannad / Ciaran Brennan

The Best of Clannad

BMG

5:17

 

The Ferryman

Gaelic Storm / Pete St. John

Herding Cats

Omtown

3:59

 

The Mighty Clansmen (instrumentals)

Deanta / King George IV - Traditional, and Johnny Harley's Reel by Liz Carroll

Ready for the Storm

Green Linnet

3:24

Soldier Laddie

Dervish / lyrics Robbie Burns, music trad.

Spirit

www.dervish.ie

5:28

 

The Holy Ground

Andy Irvine and Patrick Street / Gerry O'Beirne

Flight of the Green Linnet (Celtic Music: the Next Generation)

Green Linnet

5:35

 

Scarborough Fair

Anuna - Traditional

Celtic Origins

Elevation

2:49

 

Rocky Road to Dublin

The Chieftains with the Rolling Stones / Traditional

The Wide World Over

RCA

4:17

 

The Wee Lass on the Brae

Danu / Traditional

All Things Considered

Shanachie

3:50

 

Da Slockit Light / Smith o'Causter / Da Grocer (instrumentals)

Tom Anderson, Aly Bain / Tom Anderson

The Silver Bow - The Fiddle Music of Scotland, featuring Tom Anderson and Aly Bain

Topic

4:13

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.