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Traveling Music 5-8-16

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

5-8-16

 

Upcoming concert:  Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Sunday May 15, 7:30 PM, PAC

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Throw Down Your Heart

Bela Fleck (in Mali) / Bela Fleck

Throw Down Your Heart

Rounder

5:07

 

Bring Me My Queen

Abigail Washburn / Abigail Washburn

City of Refuge

Rounder

4:12

 

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves

Maura O'Connell & the Duhks, with Tim O'Brien and John Doyle / Lennox, Stewart

Wells for Zoe: Water for Life

Compass

4:38

 

Thula Mama

Bela Fleck (in South Africa) / Vusi Mahlasela

Throw Down Your Heart

Rounder

3:59

 

That Dawn The Day You Left Me

Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick / Jim Mintun

Together

Rounder

3:55

 

You Can't Say We Didn't Try

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell / Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Cory Chisel

The Traveling Kind

Nonesuch

3:26

 

I've Got A Feeling

Tim May / Tim May

Find My Way Back

FGM Records

4:17

 

Going To Write Me A Letter

The Giddens Sisters (Rhiannon Giddens, Lalenja Harrington) / Trad. via Ola Belle Reed

I Know I've Been Changed

www.musicmaker.org

3:31

 

Muddy Water

Heidi Talbot / Boo Hewerdine

Wells for Zoe: Water for Life

Compass

4:13

 

City of Refuge

Abigail Washburn / Abigail Washburn

City of Refuge

Rounder

3:42

 

Marian (instrumental - guitar and banjo)

Bela Fleck with Djelimady Tounkara (Mali) / Bela Fleck, Djelimady Tounkara

Throw Down Your Heart

Rounder

3:51

 

Your Worries and Troubles are Mine

Tim May / Tim May

Find My Way Back

FGM Records

3:40

 

Corner Girl

Abigail Washburn / Abigail Washburn

City of Refuge

Rounder

3:24

 

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.