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Traveling Music 8-13-17

Traveling Music

8-13-17

Shonti Elder

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

The Dreamer

Darrell Scott / Darell Scott

The Invisible Man

Full Light

4:32

 

More Love

Dixie Chicks / Tim O'Brien, Gary Nicholson

Home

Columbia

5:06

 

Speak

Nickel Creek / Sean Watkins

This Side

Sugar Hill

4:01

 

The Drowsy Sleeper

Lissa Schneckenburger / Traditional

Song

www.lissafiddle.com

4:23

 

Captain Torres

James Keelaghan / James Keelaghan

The First 25 Years

Borealisrecords.com

7:42

 

My Dear Companion

Lissa Schneckenburger / traditional with additions from Lissa Schneckenburger

Lissa Schneckenburger

www.lissafiddle.com

2:43

 

The Brewer Lad with The Popcorn

Nightingale (with Jeremiah McLane) / Traditional, Don Messer

The Coming Dawn

Epact

3:45

 

Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

Bill Morrissey / Traditional

Songs of Mississippi John Hurt

Philo

2:59

 

Godspeed

Dixie Chicks / Radney Foster

Home

Columbia

4:42

 

I Wish

Darrell Scott / Darell Scott

Aloha From Nashville

Sugar Hill

4:20

 

Somewhere Ahead

James Keelaghan / James Keelaghan

The First 25 Years

Borealisrecords.com

3:12

 

Hey, Honey Right Away

Bill Morrissey / John Hurt

Songs of Mississippi John Hurt

Philo

2:41

 

It's the Whiskey That Eases the Pain

Darrell Scott / Wayne Scott

Aloha From Nashville

Sugar Hill

4:03

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.