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Traveling Music 2-12-17

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

 

Upcoming Concerts:

 

Peter Mulvey, with guest Heather Maloney, Sat. Feb. 25, 7:30 Tap Root

Sun. Feb. 26, 6 PM, Vagabond Blues

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Frankie Belle

Rhonda Vincent and the Rage / Molly Cherryholmes

Ragin' Live

Rounder

3:12

 

Pearls

The Mammals / Merenda, Rodriguez

Rock That Babe

Signature Sounds

4:57

 

Don't Put Off Til Tomorrow

The Wayfaring Strangers / Bill Monroe, Pete Pyle

The Wayfaring Strangers

Rounder

3:31

 

Lies You Forgot You Told

Peter Mulvey / Peter Mulvey

Silver Ladder

www.signaturesounds.com

2:24

 

O Hope My Tired Friend

Heather Maloney / Heather Maloney

Making Me Break

Signature Sounds

3:19

 

Josephine

Peter Mulvey / Peter Mulvey

Silver Ladder

www.signaturesounds.com

2:58

 

The Last Best Place

Rhonda Vincent and the Rage / Steve Leslie, Christi Baker, Shari Baker

Ragin' Live

Rounder

4:17

 

Who'll Sing For Me?

The Wayfaring Strangers / Thomas Farris

The Wayfaring Strangers

Rounder

3:32

 

Quite Early One Morning

The Mammals / Pete Seeger

Rock That Babe

Signature Sounds

6:40

 

Let Down

Sometimes Why / Ruth Ungar

Sometimes Why

www.sometimeswhy.us

3:06

 

Deeper Well

The Wailin' Jennys / David Olney, Daniel Lanois, Emmylou Harris

The Wailin' Jennys

www.thewailinjennys.com

3:54

 

Day With You

Heather Maloney / Heather Maloney

Making Me Break

Signature Sounds

3:41

 

You and Me and Ten Thousand Things

Peter Mulvey / Pete Mulvey

The Knuckleball Suite

Signature Sounds

 

Heaven When We're Home

Wailin Jennys  / Ruth Moody

40 Days

www.thewailinjennys.com

4:21

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.