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Traveling Music 3-18-18

Traveling Music

3-18-18

Shonti Elder

 

Upcoming Concert: Dervish, Irish band of 25 years, Saturday, March 24, 7:30 PM, PAC, Atwood

 

Format:  Tune Title

Performer / Composer

Album Title

Recording Company

Length

 

Star of Belle Isle

Archie Fisher / Traditional

Windward Away

Red House Records

3:29

 

When You Are Old

Karen Boylan / Lyrics William Butler Yeats, music by Karen Boylan

Dance Across White Horses

www.karenboylan.com

2:28

 

Heman Dubh (harp instrumental)

Patrick Ball / traditional Breton

The Wood of Morois

White Strand Records

4:08

 

Who Knows Where the Wind Blows

Tommy Sands / Tommy Sands

The Heart’s A Wonder

Green Linnet Records

3:18

 

Dream (instrumentals)

Wicked Tinkers / Donald MacLeod, Donald MacLeod, Traditional, Gordan Duncan

Whiskey Supper

Thistle Pricks Productions

3:52

 

Ride Through the Rainbow

Archie Fisher / Archie Fisher

Windward Away

Red House Records

3:38

 

Humours of Ballyloughlin / Knocknagow (fiddle instrumentals)

Eileen Ivers / Traditional

So Far

Green Linnet

4:26

 

A Far Land

Karen Boylan / Karen Boylan (based on traditional The Emigrant’s Farewell

Dance Across White Horses

www.karenboylan.com

6:10

 

Blow, Northern Wynd (harp instrumental)

Patrick Ball / Traditional early 14th century English

The Wood of Morois

White Strand Records

2:42

 

Fields of Gold

Eva Cassidy / Sting

A Woman’s Heart, A Decade On

Dara Records

4:42

 

Short Cut Through the Fields

Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane / Tommy Sands

The Heart’s A Wonder

Green Linnet Records

3:18

 

The Island

Dolores Keane / Paul Brady

A Woman’s Heart

Darte CD

4:56

 

The Orphan / Paul Montague’s (fiddle instrumentals)

Eileen Ivers / Traditional

So Far

Green Linnet

4:10

 

Ramona

Sinead Lohan / Bob Dylan

A Woman’s Heart, A Decade On

Dara Records

3:44

 

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.