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Traveling Music 2-21-16

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

2-21-16

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Wild Blossoms

Nancy Conescu / Nancy Conescu

Wild Blossoms

Stinging Nettles Music

3:11

 

The Scarlet Tide

Alison Krauss / T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello

Cold Mountain

Sony UK

2:59

 

Rain or Shine (banjo instrumental)

Alison Brown / Brown, Burr

The Company You Keep

Compass

4:17

 

Spring and All

Mary Chapin Carpenter / Greg Brown

Going Driftless

Red House Records

3:38

 

Hush

Toni Childs / Toni Childs

Union

A & M Records

4:02

 

Verdant Braes of Screen

Nancy Conescu / Traditional Irish

Wild Blossoms

Stinging Nettles Music

5:28

Lately

Lucinda Williams / Greg Brown

Going Driftless

Red House Records

4:44

 

Battle Cry of Freedom / Bonaparte's Retreat (instrumentals)

Brian Christianson and friends / traditional

Brian Christianson and friends

www.myspace.com/brianchristianson

3:19

 

Summer Evening

Gillian Welch  / Greg Brown

Going Driftless

Red House Records

3:17

 

The Clean Plate Club (banjo instrumental)

Alison Brown / Brown, Burr

The Company You Keep

Compass

2:53

 

Ruby with the eyes that Sparkle (Fiddle instrumental)

Stuart Duncan, Dirk Powell

Cold Mountain

Sony UK

3:11

 

Good Morning Coffee

Greg Brown / Greg Brown

If I Had Known

Red House Records

3:00

 

Small Dark Movie

Lucy Kapalansky / Greg Brown

Going Driftless

Red House Records

2:59

 

It So Happens (guitar instrumental)

Bill Cooley / Bill Cooley

The Return Journey

NLM Records

5:00

 

Canned Goods

Greg Brown / Greg Brown

If I Had Known

Red House Records

4:08

 

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.