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Traveling Music 5-21-17

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

5-21-17

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Child of This Place

Dougie Maclean / Dougie Maclean

Caledonia Cantata

Dunkeld Records

7:40

 

Thinking Ever Thinking

Nancy Conescu / Traditional

Wild Blossoms

www.nancyconescu.com

4:34

 

Lady Margret

Cassie Franklin / Traditional

Cold Mountain

Sony

3:02

 

Blooming Caroline from Edinburgh Town

Battlefield Band / Traditional

Beg & Borrow

www.battlefieldband.co.uk

5:23

 

Madman Across the Water

Bill Cooley with Kathy Mattea / Bill Cooley

The Return Journey

NLM Records

6:15

 

If I Had Known

Greg Brown / Greg Brown

If I Had Known

Red House Records

3:21

 

Spring and All

Mary Chapin Carpenter / Greg Brown

Going Driftless

Red House Records

3:38

 

The Road West (instrumental)

Alison Brown / Mairtin O'Connor

The Company You Keep

Compass Records

5:28

 

Wild Blossoms

Nancy Conescu / Nancy Conescu

Wild Blossoms

www.nancyconescu.com

3:11

 

Youthful Innocence

Dougie Maclean / Dougie Maclean

Caledonia Cantata

Dunkeld Records

6:04

 

Laughing River

Greg Brown / Greg Brown

If I Had Known

Red House Records

4:18

 

The Return Journey (instrumental)

Bill Cooley / Bill Cooley

The Return Journey

NLM Records

3:00

 

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.