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Traveling Music 8-20-17

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

8-20-17

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Oblivious

Christy Moore / Mick Blake

Lily

Columbia

3:16

 

No Telling What A Love Song Will Do

Tim Pomeroy /  Linda Thompson

The Poetry Place

lord.jon@virgin.net

4:06

 

A Ring On Her Hand (with Cairo Day)

Old Blind Dogs / Brian Cromarty, Ali Hutton

Room With A View

www.oldblinddogs.co.uk

4:32

 

The Fishing Boat

Manran / Lise Sinclair, Astvaldur Traustasson

The Test

www.manran.co.uk

4:37

 

The Coarncraik

Deaf Shepherd / Traditional

Synergy

Greentrax

3:54

 

Desert Reels (including The Killarney Boys of Pleasure - instrumentals)

Future Trad Collective / Traditional, arranged by band

Future Trad Collective

Vertical Records

7:45

 

Sweet Lemany

Jarlath Henderson

Hearts Broken, Heads Turned

Bellows Records

5:06

 

Donald MacLean's Farewell to Oban (instrumental)

Angus Grant / S. MacNeill

The Fiddler's Companion

Legacy

2:00

 

The Gardener

Christy Moore / Paul Doran

Lily

Columbia

3:48

 

Tha Mise fo Mulad san Am Uilleam Ross / Chi Mi na Mor Bheanna

Deoch 'n' Dorus / Uilleam Ross, Traditional

Deoch 'n'Dorus

Skippinish Records

4:44

 

Earl O March's Daughter

Old Blind Dogs / Lionel McLelland

Room With A View

www.oldblinddogs.co.uk

5:07

 

John Harrison's Hands

Tim Pomeroy /  Dick Gaughan, Brian McNeill

The Poetry Place

lord.jon@virgin.net

4:45

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.