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Traveling Music 9-21-14

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

9-21-14

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Dust Bowl Children

Druha Trava & Peter Rowan / Peter Rowan

New Freedom Bell

Compass Records

3:28

 

Child's Song

Tom Rush / Murray McLaughlin

No Regrets

Columbia

4:09

 

Not Some Far-Away Place

Ann Reed / Ann Reed

Where the Earth is Round

www.annreed.com

3:02

 

Without My Walking Stick

Tom Rozum / Irving Berlin

Jubilee

Dog Boy Records

4:29

 

I Gotta Believe in Something

The Refugees / Cindy Bullens

Unbound

Wabuho

4:30

 

Music Tree

Lauren Rioux / Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott

All The Brighter

Borough Records

3:54

 

The Family Demon

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band / Peter Rowan

Legacy

Compass Records

3:19

 

Apanhei-te Cavaquinho (instrumental)

Rio con Brio / Ernesto Nazareth

Vignettes

www.rioconbrio.net

2:44

 

No Regrets

Tom Rush / Tom Rush

No Regrets

Columbia

5:39

 

I Hope You

Ann Reed / Ann Reed

By Request

A Major Label

2:05

 

Catch Me if You Can

The Refugees / Bullens, Holland, Waldman

Three

TheRefugeesMusic.com

4:26

 

One Sweet Hello

Tom Rozum / Merle Haggard

Jubilee

Dog Boy Records

4:26

 

Don't Ask Me Why

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band / Peter Rowan

Legacy

Compass Records

3:11

 

One Does What One Can (instrumental)

Lauren Rioux / Joe Walsh

All The Brighter

Borough Records

2:01

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.