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Traveling Music 11-2-14

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

11-2-14

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Howlin' At The Moon

Sam Bush / James L. Ratts, John McEuen

Howlin' At the Moon

Sugar Hill

2:58

 

Homeward Bound

Alison Brown - banjo, singers Amy Ray, Emily Saliers / Paul Simon

Stolen Moments

Compass Records

4:01

 

What to Keep and What to Throw Away

Mary Chapin Carpenter / Mary Chapin Carpenter

Ashes and Roses

Zoe

4:33

 

Crooked Mile

Peter Case / Peter Case

Who's Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile?

Vanguard

4:15

 

Cali's Wedding / Alasdair's Jig

Hanneke Cassel / Hanneke Cassel

For Reasons Unseen

Cassel Records

5:00

 

As Long As You Love

Cindy Bullens / Cindy Bullens

Heaven and Earth / Cindy Bullens

Artemis Records

5:46

 

Fields of Gold

Eva Cassidy / Sting

Songbird

Blix Records

4:42

 

Go With the Flow

Sam Bush / Tony Colton, Jack Jeioro

Howlin' At the Moon

Sugar Hill

5:03

 

Living in A Prayer

Greg Brown / Greg Brown

Covenant

Red House Records

3:43

 

Why Shouldn't We?

Mary Chapin Carpenter / Mary Chapin Carpentier

The Calling

Zoe Records

5:05

 

I Gotta Believe in Something

Cindy Bullens (with Bonnie Raitt, Beth Nielsen Chapman) / Cindy Bullens

Heaven and Earth / Cindy Bullens

Artemis Records

6:09

 

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.