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Traveling Music 3-20-16

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

3-20-16

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Are You Tired of Me My Darling? (instrumental)

Darol Anger / Carter family

Heritage

Six Degrees Records

4:50

 

Dear Companion

Lissa Schneckenburger / Traditional

Lissa Schneckenburger

Footprint Records

2:42

 

In My Final Hour

Darrell Scott / Darrell Scott

The Invisible Man

Full Light Records

3:12

 

Easy Silence

Dixie Chicks / Dan Wilson, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Martie Maguire

Taking the Long Way

Columbia

4:02

 

Moonshiner

The Bill Hilly Band / Traditional

All Day Every Day

Borealis Recording Company

4:33

 

Little Musgrove and Lady Barnswell

Lissa Schneckenburger / Traditional

Song

Footprint Records

4:09

 

More Love

Dixie Chicks / Tim O'Brien

Home

Columbia

5:06

 

Covered Front Porch

The Bill Hilly Band / Chris Frye

All Day Every Day

Borealis Recording Company

3:26

 

Monday Morning Blues

Bill Morrissey / John Hurt

Songs of Mississippi John Hurt

Philo

4:39

 

The Ones We Couldn't Be

Bonnie Raitt / Bonnie Raitt

Dig in Deep

Redwing Records

4:14

 

Aran Boat Song (instrumental)

Darol Anger with Alasdair Frasier / Traditional

Diary of a Fiddler

Compass Records

4:12

 

You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive

Darrell Scott / Darrell Scott

Aloha frrom Nashville

Sugar Hill

5:03

 

Godspeed

Dixie Chicks / Radney Foster

Home

Columbia

4:42

 

A Little Help From My Friends

Darol Anger and Martin Hayes (instrumental)

Diary of a Fiddler

Compass Records

2:00

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.