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Traveling Music 3-12-17

Traveling Music

3-12-17

Shonti Elder

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Boulder To Birmingham

Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler / Emmylou Harris, Bill Danoff

Real Live Roadrunning

Warner

3:39

 

Coal Tattoo

Kathy Mattea  / Billy Edd Wheeler

Coal

Captain Potato Records

3:17

 

Up My Sleeve

Jim Lauderdale / Robert Hunter, Jim Lauderdale

Patchwork River

Thirty Tigers

5:17

 

Fireflies

Nicky Mehta / Nicky Mehta

Weather Vane

Plough Records

4:03

 

I Know This (forJ.)

Nicky Mehta / Nicky Mehta

Weather Vane

Plough Records

3:55

 

Never Look Back

Kathy Mattea  (with Jonathan Edwards) / Wendy Waldman . Donny Lowery

From My Heart

Mercury

3:19

 

Julie's House

Leo Kottke (with Emmylou Harris)  / Leo Kottke

Time Step

BGO Records

3:24

 

Coming of the Roads

Kathy Mattea  / Billy Edd Wheeler

Coal

Captain Potato Records

4:38

 

Helpless

K.D. Lang / Neil Young

Recollection

Nonesuch

4:14

 

If This Is Goodbye

Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler / Mark Knopfler

Real Live Roadrunning

Warner

4:53

 

Tall Eyes

Jim Lauderdale / Robert Hunter, Jim Lauderdale

Patchwork River

Thirty Tigers

3:13

 

Asking Us To Dance

Kathy Mattea / Hugh Prestwood

Time Passes By

Polygram

4:22

 

Sally in the Garden (banjo instrumental)

Kathy Mattea  / Traditional

Coal

Captain Potato Records

:44

 

Green Rolling Hills

Kathy Mattea  / (Bruce) Utah Phillips

Coal

Captain Potato Records

3:46

 

Why Worry

Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler / Mark Knopfler

Real Live Roadrunning

Warner

4:09

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.