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Traveling Music 1-28-17

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

5-28-17

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Wolfe's Head (instrumental)

Al Petteway / Al Petteway

Whispering Stones

Maggie's Music

3:07

 

More Love

Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott / Tim O'Brien

Real Time

Full Light Records

4:05

 

And So It Goes

John Denver and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Paul Overstreet, Don Schlitz

Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2

MCA Records

4:37

 

Comin' Down

Riley Woodford / C. Kirkwood

Applehood and Mother Pie

riley.woodford@alaska.gov

3:35

 

Walk Beside Me

Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott / Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott

Real Time

Full Light Records

4:11

 

Wheels

Dwight Yoakam and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Chris Hillman, Graham Parsons

Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 3

Capitol

3:15

 

Rites of Man

Spirit of the West / Kelly, Mann

Hit Parade

Paramount

5:05

 

Oh Cumberland

Matraca Berg and Emmylou Harris, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Matraca Berg, Gary Harrison

Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 3

Capitol

4:21

 

Bitter the Parting

John Doyle with Kate Rusby / John Doyle

Wayward Son

Compass Records

4:15

 

Home for a Rest

Spirit of the West / Kelly, Mann

Hit Parade

Paramount

4:35

 

There Ain't No Easy Way

Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott / Darrell Scott

Real Time

Full Light Records

4:27

 

Turn of the Century

Nitty Gritty Band / J. Fred Knobloch, Dan Tyler

Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2

MCA Records

3:38

 

Political

Spirit of the West / Kelly, Mann

Hit Parade

Paramount

4:15

 

It's A New Day

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Berg, Krekel

Welcome to Woody Creek

Dualtone

3:16

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.