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Traveling Music 2-15-15

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

2-15-15

 

Dedicated  to Doc South, (Dr. Harold South) legendary Alaskan fiddler and dance caller who passed away in January.

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Wild Jack

Growling Old Men / John Lowell

Chicken Feed & Baling Twine

Snake River Records

3:50

 

All Night Long

The Canote Brothers / Jim Abraham

Thinga-Ma-Jig

Clone Tone

2:41

 

The Girl I Left Behind Me / I'm Going Away to Leave You, Going to Tennessee - instrumentals

Alan Jabbour, James Reed, Bertram Levy / Traditional

A Henry Reed Reunion

www.alanjabbour.com

3:07

 

Mole in the Ground

Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien, John Herrmann / Traditional

Songs from the Mountain

Howdy Skies Records

3:00

 

Fiddlin' Around

Mark O'Connor with Johnny Gimble / Johnny Gimble

Heroes

Warner Brothers

4:53

 

Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes

Laurie Lewis, Tom Rozum / Slim Willet

Guest House

Hightone Records

2:53

 

Keep on the Sunny Side

The Whites / A. P. Carter

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Universal

3:35

 

Rank Stranger

Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands /Albert Brumley

The Golden West

Hightone Records

4:06

 

Liza Jane - instrumental

Todd Phillips / Traditional

In the Pines

Gourd Music

4:18

 

Shady Grove

Chesapeake / Traditional

Rising Tide

Sugar Hill

2:38

 

You Don't Have to Move that Mountain

Missy Raines  (vocalist Suzanne Thomas) / Keith Whitley

My Place in the Sun

missyraines.com

2:39

 

Frosty Morning - instrumental

Alan Jabbour, James Reed, Bertram Levy / Traditional

A Henry Reed Reunion

www.alanjabbour.com

2:45

 

Cherokee Trail / Glory in the Meeting House - instrumentals

Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien, John Herrmann / John Herrman, traditional

Songs from the Mountain

Howdy Skies Records

2:07

Lonesome John - instrumental

Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien, John Herrmann / Traditional

Songs from the Mountain

Howdy Skies Records

1:52

 

Waterbound

Growling Old Men / Dirk Powell

Chicken Feed & Baling Twine

Snake River Records

3:25

 

Angel Band

The Stanley Brothers / Traditional

O Brother , Where Art Thou?

Universal

1:15

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.