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Traveling Music 6-25-17

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

6-25-17

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

My Opening Farewell

Alison Krauss & Union Station / Jackson Browne

Paper Airplane

Rounder

4:09

 

All I Can Do

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / Cahalen Morrison

Our Lady of the Tall Trees

www.cahalenandeli.com

4:23

 

Black is the Color

Rhiannon Giddens / Traditional

Tomorrow is My Turn

Nonesuch

3:45

 

Hurting Sure

The John Cowan Band / Mark Simos

New Tattoo

Pincecastle Records

3:53

 

Kansas City

The New Basement Tapes / Bob Dylan, Marcus Mumford, Taylor Goldsmith

Lost on The River

Harvest Records

4:04

 

Jacob's Dream

Alison Krauss / Julie Lee, John Pennell

A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection

Rounder

5:24

 

A Lady Does Not Often Enter

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / Cahalen Morrison

Our Lady of the Tall Trees

www.cahalenandeli.com

4:35

 

Shake Sugaree

Rhiannon Gidden / Elizabeth Cotten

Tomorrow is My Turn

Nonesuch

4:24

 

Misery and Happiness

The John Cowan Band (with Patty Griffin) / Kenny Edwards, Keith Sewell

New Tattoo

Pincecastle Records

4:33

 

Spanish Mary

The New Basement Tapes with Rhiannon Giddens / Bob Dylan, Rhiannon Giddens

Lost on The River

Harvest Records

5:31

 

Drown (about child abuse)

The John Cowan Band / words John Cowan, music Darrell Scott

New Tattoo

Pincecastle Records

6:07

 

Dimming of the Day

Alison Krauss & Union Station / Richard Thompson

Paper Airplane

Rounder

4:20

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.