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Traveling Music 2-8-15

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

2-8-15

 

Promoted:  The Duhks in concert Sunday Feb. 8, 7:30 PM Glenn Massay Theater in Palmer on the campus of the University of Alaska, Mat-Su presented by Whistling Swan

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Banjo Banjo

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn / Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn

Rounder

3:53

 

Suffer No Fools

The Duhks / Jessica Havey

Beyond the Blue

Compass Records

4:00

 

Shankill Butchers

Sarah Jarosz / Colin Meloy

Song Up in her Head

Sugar Hill

4:21

 

The Bluebird Song

John McCutcheon / Jean Ritchie

Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie

Compass

2:25

 

You Go East, I'll Go West (Winipeg Hora, Erna Andersens' Reel -instrumentals)

The Duhks / Leonard Podolak, Ruth Ungar

Beyond the Blue

Compass Records

5:06

 

Jubilee

Kathy Mattea and friends / traditional

Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie

Compass

2:22

 

What'cha Gonna Do?

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn / Bela Fleck

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn

Rounder

3:49

 

Thousand Mile Blues

Don Schatz / Jean Ritchie

Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie

Compass

4:30

 

Long Journey

Sarah Jarosz / Sarah Jarosz

Song Up in her Head

Sugar Hill

5:16

 

Everybody Knows

The Duhks / Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson

The Duhks

Sugar Hill

4:09

 

Let the Sun Shine Down on Me

Kim and Regiie Harris / Jean Ritchie

Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie

Compass

4:14

 

New South Africa (instrumental)

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn / Bela Fleck

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn

Rounder

4:36

 

Adams' 3-step

The Duhks / Tania Elizabeth

Fast Paced World

Sugar Hill

1:07

 

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.