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Travling Music 11-19-17

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

11-19-17

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Our Children

Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen / Sally Rogers

When Howie Met Sally

Flying Fish

2:55

 

Lay Down Your Weary Tune

Tim O'Brien / Bob Dylan

Red on Blonde

Sugar Hill

3:28

 

Field Behind the Plow

Stan Rogers / Stan Rogers

Home In Halifax

Fogarty's Cove Music

4:26

 

Cordova

Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen / Sally Rogers

When Howie Met Sally

Flying Fish

4:48

 

Hold To A Dream

Tim O'Brien / Tim O'Brien

Odd Man In

Sugar Hill

2:49

 

Lies

Stan Rogers / Stan Rogers

Home In Halifax

Fogarty's Cove Music

5:40

 

Don't Let Me Come Home A Stranger

Tim and Mollie O'Brien / Robin Williams

Away Out On the Mountain

Sugar Hill

3:58

 

No Ash Will Burn

Mollie O'Brien / Walt Aldrich

Big Red Sun

Sugar Hill

4:16

 

Rising In Love

David Roth / David Roth

Rising in Love

Folk Era

2:48

 

Forty-Five Years

Stan Rogers / Stan Rogers

Fogarty's Cove

Fogarty's Cove Music

3:29

 

It's A Pleasure to Know You

Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen / Karl Williams

When Howie Met Sally

Flying Fish

5:05

 

Wichita

Tim and Mollie O'Brien / Gillian Welch

Away Out On the Mountain

Sugar Hill

2:24

 

Big Red Sun Blues

Mollie O'Brien / Lucinda Williams

Big Red Sun

Sugar Hill

3:51

 

When You Come Back Down

Tim O'Brien / Tim O'Brien and Denny O'Keefe

When No One's Around

Sugar Hill

4:38

 

(wrongly announced as The Last Paycheck, The Martin House)

Katie's Choice - instrumental

Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen / Sally Rogers

When Howie Met Sally

Flying Fish

1:53

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.