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Traveling Music 6-4-17

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

6-4-17

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Mill O'Tifty

Old Blind Dogs / Traditional

The World's Room

Green Linnet

6:53

 

Treasure Island

Mary Black / John Gorka

Women of the World Celtic

Putamayo

3:12

 

The Briar and the Rose

Niamh Parsons and the Loose Connections (with Fran McPhail) / Tom Waits

Her Infinite Variety: Celtic Women in Music and Song

Green Linnet

3:22

 

All That You Ask Me

Solas / Kieran Goss

Another Day

Shanachie

5:14

 

The Wild Goose

Kate Rusby / Traditional

Sleepless

Compass Records

4:22

 

Jack Haggerty

Touchstone / Mick Hanley, Trad.

Flight of the Green Linnet

Green Linnet

2:58

Waiting for the Wheel to Turn

Karen Matheson (of Capercaillie) / Donald Shaw

Women of the World Celtic

Putamayo

6:39

 

Prelude / Black Annis

Solas / Seamus Egan, Antje Duvekot

The Edge of Silence

Shanachie

6:30

 

Farewell to Ireland / Foxhunter's Reel (instrumentals)

Celtic Fiddle Festival/ traditional

Nua Tearainn: New Celtic Music from Green Linnet

Green Linnet

6:49

 

Let Me Be

Kate Rusby / lyrics Traditional, music Kate Rusby

Underneath the Stars

Compass Records

3:55

 

I Wandered By A Brookside

Solas / Traditional

Another Day

Shanachie

3:47

 

The Butterfly (instrumental)

Kevin Burke / Tommy Potts

Nua Tearainn: New Celtic Music from Green Linnet

Green Linnet

2:23

 

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.