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Traveling Music 8-16-15

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

8-16-15

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Promoted:  Rufus Wainwright concert, Sat. Aug. 29 at the Discovery Theater at the PAC

 

Hallelujah

Rufus Wainwright / Leonard Cohen

Shrek

Dreamworks

4:08

 

One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

Leonard Cohen / Leonard Cohen

Cohen Live

Columbia

5:20

 

Festival Song

Tim Easton / Tim Easton

Tim Easton, since 1966, Volume 1

www.timeaston.com

3:50

 

One Paper Kid

Guy Clark / Walter Martin Cowart

Craftsman

Philo

3:27

 

Throw Down My Heart

Bela Fleck / Bela Fleck

Throw Down Your Heart, Africa Sessions

Rounder

5:07

 

Lonliest Cowboy

Jack Dwyer Band / Jack Dwyer

Live in Portland

www.jackdwyer.com

2:57

 

Green Pastures

Cahalen Morrison and Eli West / H.W. Vanhoose

I'll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands

www.cahalenandeli.com

3:24

 

Breathe

Willy Porter / Willy Porter

High Wire Live

Six Degrees

4:45

 

Angels Are Calling

Guy Davis / Guy Davis

Sweetheart Like You

Red House Records

4:56

 

She Loves To Ride Horses

Guy Clark / Guy Clark, Keith Sykes

The Dark

Sugar Hill

3:31

 

Hold On To The Blues

Jack Dwyer Band / Jack Dwyer

Live in Portland

www.jackdwyer.com

2:54

 

Down South Blues

Guy Davis / Son House

Sweetheart Like You

Red House Records

3:02

 

Angry Words

Willy Porter / Willy Porter

High Wire Live

Six Degrees

5:38

 

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.