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Traveling Music 3-25-18

Traveling Music

3-25-18

Shonti Elder

 

Format:  Tune Title

Performer / Composer

Album Title

Recording Company

Length

 

Coming Home

O’Connor Band with Mark O’Connor / Forrest O’Connor

Coming Home

Rounder

3:22

 

Porch Light

Aoife O’Donovan / Aoife O’Donovan

In the Magic Hour

Yep Rock Records

3:17

 

Dance With No Shoes

Peter Rowan / Peter Rowan and Buck Wells

Awake Me in the New World

Sugar Hill

5:53

 

Wall of Tears

Frances Black / Richard Leigh, Peter McCann

A Woman’s Heart

Darte CD

4:05

 

I Haven’t Said I Love You in a While

O’Connor Band with Mark O’Connor / Forrest O’Connor

Coming Home

Rounder

3:52

 

Detour Sign

Aoife O’Donovan / Aoife O’Donovan

In the Magic Hour

Yep Rock Records

3:32

 

Maria de Las Rosas

Peter Rowan / Peter Rowan

Awake Me in the New World

Sugar Hill

4:14

 

You Too

O’Connor Band with Mark O’Connor / Forrest O’Connor, Jim Shirey

Coming Home

Rounder

3:44

 

In the Sweet By and By

Dolly Parton with Altan / Traditional

A Woman’s Heart, a Decade On

Dara Records

3:51

 

Blackbird (accordion instrumental)

Sharon Shannon / Traditional

A Woman’s Heart

Darte CD

4:01

 

Citizen

Cold Country / Todd Grebe

Cold Country

www.Toddgrebe.com

4:40

 

Passing Fantasy

John Sebastian and David Grisman / Sebastian, Nicholson

Satisfied

Acoustic Disc

4:07

 

Falling Water (guitar instrumental)

John Cook

Nothing More To Say

acoustixx@hotmail.com

3:16

 

Knee Bone

Ranky Tanky / Traditional

Ranky Tanky

www.rankytanky.com

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.