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Traveling Music 8-30-15

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

8-30-15

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Upcoming Concerts:

Triple Concert Thursday Sept. 3, 7:30 PM at the Sydney Lawrence Theater at the PAC

 

When I'm Gone

Dick Gaughan / Phil Ochs

Outlaws and Dreamers

Appleseed

3:43

 

All of It Was Music

Over the Rhine /  LinfordDetweiler

Meet me at the Edge of the World

Over the Rhine

4:20

 

Lazy

Richard Shindell / Richard Shindell

Blue Divide

Shanachie

2:45

 

All Over Ohio

Over the Rhine /  Linford Detweiler

Meet me at the Edge of the World

Over the Rhine

6:00

 

Strong Women Rule Us All

Dick Gaughan / Brian McNeil

Outlaws and Dreamers

Appleseed

6:38

 

All The Way Home

Cathy Jordan / Enda Cullen, Cathy Jordan, Ian Smith

All the Way Home

Blix Street

3:36

 

Arrowhead

Richard Shindell / Richard Shindell

Blue Divide

Shanachie

4:23

 

Humors of Ballyloughlin / Knocknagow (instrumentals)

Eileen Ivers / Traditional

Eileen Ivers

Green Linnet

4:26

 

What You Do With What You've Got

Dick Gaughan / Si Kahn

Outlaws and Dreamers

Appleseed

3:18

 

The Broken Promise (instrumental)

(Medley O'Mahoney's / Murphy's Reel)

Gaelic Storm / Traditional

Herding Cats

Omtown

4:35

 

Helen of Kirkconnel

The Iron Horse / Traditional

The Collection

Lochshore

3:28

 

Across the Western Ocean

The Green Fields of America / traditional

The Green Fields of American

Compass Records

4:03

 

Heart of the Ocean

Gaelic Storm / Steve Twigger, Steve Wehmyer

Herding Cats

Omtown

4:28

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.