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Traveling Music 8-28-16

Traveling Music

8-28-16

Shonti Elder

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

10,000 Miles

Eliza Carthy / Traditional

Red

Topic Records

3:04

 

Lighthouse Light

Mary Black (with Janis Ian) / Ry Cavanaugh

Stories from the Steeples

Blix Street, www.mary-black.net

3:58

 

Fremont Center / The "Vornado" / Minuteman Reels (violin instrumentals)

Liz Carroll & John Doyle / Liz Carroll

In Play

Compass Records

4:35

 

Who Put the Blood

Karan Casey / Traditional

The Winds Begin to Sing

Shanachie

4:18

 

Three Weeks We Were Wed

Cherish the Ladies / traditional

One and All: The best of Cherish the Ladies

Green Linnet Records

3:04

 

The Kid on the Mountain / The Donegal / The Swallowstail / The Marquis of Tullybardine (instrumentals)

Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick / Traditional

Both Ears and the Tail

Gadfly Records

4:51

 

The Night was Dark and Deep

Mary Black / Paul Kelly

Stories from the Steeples

Blix Street, www.mary-black.net

3:53

 

Green Grow the Rushes Oh

Cherish the Ladies / Robert Burns

One and All: The best of Cherish the Ladies

Green Linnet Records

4:48

 

The Back Door

Cherish the Ladies /Traditional

One and All: The best of Cherish the Ladies

Green Linnet Records

4:23

 

Eppie Morrie

Karan Casey / Traditional

The Winds Begin to Sing

Shanachie

3:59

 

Hunter's Moon / Getting There / The Morris Minor (Waltz and Reel) - instrumentals

Liz Carroll & John Doyle / Traditional

In Play

Compass Records

6:41

 

One True Place

Mary Black / Neil Murray

Stories from the Steeples

Blix Street, www.mary-black.net

5:35

 

The Green Cottage Polka

Cherish the Ladies /Traditional

One and All: The best of Cherish the Ladies

Green Linnet 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.