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Traveling Music 1-11-15

  Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

1-11-15

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

The Maid That Sold Her Barley

Mary Dillon with Deanta / Trad.

The Voice of Celtic Women, There Was a Lady

Green Linnet

2:36

 

Is The Big Man Within? / Tilly Finn’s Reel (instrumentals)

Altan / Trad.

Altan 25th Anniversary Celebration

Compass Records

5:19

 

The Witch of the Westmorland

Stan Rogers / Archie Fisher

BBetween the Breaks…Live!

www.borealisrecords.com

5:19

 

Exiles Return

Karan Casey, John Doyle / John Doyle

Exiles Return

Compass Records

3:47

 

J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio “Ich will nur zu Ehren leben” (banjo instrumental)

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones / J. S. Bach

Jingle All the Way

Rounder

4:26

 

The Echo Mocks the Corncrake

Jim Malcolm / Trad.

The Corncrake

www.JimMalcolm.com

4:46

The Jug of Punch

Altan / Trad.

The Voice of Celtic Women, There Was a Lady

Green Linnet

3:27

 

Linus and Lucy (instrumental)

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones / J. S. Bach

Jingle All the Way

Rounder

2:54

 

As I Roved Out

Altan / Trad.

Altan 25th Anniversary Celebration

Compass Records

4:02

 

The Little Drummer Girl

Karan Casey, John Doyle / Trad.

Exiles Return

Compass Records

4:18

 

When First I Came To Caledonia

Jim Malcolm / Trad.

The Corncrake

www.JimMalcolm.com

5:25

 

Green Grow the Rushes Oh

Cherish the Ladies / Robert Burns

The Voice of Celtic Women, There Was a Lady

Green Linnet

4:47

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.