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Traveling Music 5-20-18

Traveling Music

Date: 5-20-18

Shonti Elder

 

Format:  Tune Title

Performer / Composer

Album Title

Recording Company

Length

 

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Tommy Sands (with Dolores Keanes and Liam O’Flynn) and Vedran Smailovic / Pete Seeger

Sarajevo Belfast

Appleseed Recordings

6:22

 

The Things that I have Seen

Richard Shindell / Richard Shindell

Blue Divide

Shanachie

3:52

 

Blue Horizon

Ann McBeth / Ann McBeth

No Going Back

www.cdbaby.com Ann McBeth

4:26

 

Arctic Nights

B.J. Fresn-MacLean / B.J. Fresn-MacLean

January Thaw

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/bj-maclean/319162147

3:34

 

Great Divide

McLeod / Kate Wolfe

Bluegrass and Beyond

Amazon.com

3:34

 

The Snows They Melt the Soonest

Terri McCoy / Traditional

Before the Snow Flies

Amazon.com

3:24

 

Torn Jacket / Aughamore / Hunter’s House (concertina instrumental)

Denise Martin / Traditional

Laptop

www.dulcimerdiva.com

5:02

 

Music of Healing

Tommy Sands (with Pete Seeger) and Vedran Smailovic / Tommy Sands, Pete Seeger

Sarajevo Belfast

Appleseed Recordings

3:39

 

A Tune For Nowhere

Richard Shindell / Richard Shindell

Blue Divide

Shanachie

3:40

 

I Just Got A Little Blue

Ann McBeth / Ann McBeth

No Going Back

www.cdbaby.com Ann McBeth

3:47

 

Travelers’ Lullaby

B.J. Fresn-MacLean / B.J. Fresn-MacLean

January Thaw

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/bj-maclean/319162147

4:38

 

Deep Settled Peace

The St. Mary’s Praise Singers (lead vocals Wade Hampton Miller, Darcy McMullen)/

Kate Peters Sturgill

Peace Like a River

www.Godsview.org

3:55

 

The Parting Glass

Terri McCoy / Traditional

Before the Snow Flies

Amazon.com

2:52

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.