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Traveling Music 1-21-18

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

1-21-18

 

Music this week: Anchorage Folk Festival, free workshops and performances.

Tonight 8:30 Seamus Eagan Project, www.anchoragefolkfestival.org

 

Tuesday, Jan. 23, free Tribute to Robert Burns, 6:30 at 907 Alehouse

and Grill, presented by the Irish Cultural Collective

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Lay Your Money Down

Solas featuring Rhiannon Gidden / Mick McAuley, Seamus Eagan

Shamrock City

www.solasmusic.com

4:26

 

Erin's Lovely Home

Karan Casey / Traditional

Ships in the Forest

Compass Records

5:35

 

A Bottle O' the Best

Jim and Susie Malcolm / Jack Foley

Spring Will Follow On

Beltane Records

4:22

 

Hornets

Aiofe O'Donovan / Aiofe O'Donovan

Man in a Neon Coat, Live from Cambridge

Yep Roc Records

3:26

 

Everything to Hide

Sarah Jarosz / Sarah Jarosz

Undercurrent

Sugar Hill

3:23

 

Bly's / The Coming of the Spring (instrumentals)

Rose Flanagan & Laura Byrne / Traditional

Forget Me Not

www.laurabyrne.com

3:14

Michael Conway

Solas / Mick McAuley, Seamus Eagan

Shamrock City

www.solasmusic.com

6:07

 

Rainbow Midst Life's Willows

Eli West with Dori Freeman / Traditional

The Both

Elidoes.com

3:17

 

Stevenson's

Hannah Rarity / Hannah Rarity music, lyrics Robert Louis Stevenson

Beginnings

www.hannahrarity.com

4:02

 

The False Lover Won Back

(Jim and) Susie Malcolm / Traditional

Spring Will Follow On

Beltane Records

4:34

 

Detour Sign

Aiofe O'Donovan / Aiofe O'Donovan

Man in a Neon Coat, Live from Cambridge

Yep Roc Records

4:39

 

Warlike Lads of Russia

Old Blind Dogs / Traditional

Room With a View

www.oldblinddogs.co.uk

3:22

 

 

 

 

 

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.