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Traveling Music 8-5-18

Traveling Music

Date: 8-5-18

Shonti Elder

 

Format:  Tune Title

Performer / Composer

Album Title

Recording Company

Length

 

What to Keep and What to Throw Away

Mary Chapin Carpenter / Mary Chapin Carpenter

Ashes and Roses

Zoe Records

4:33

 

Face Tomorrow

Sam Bush / Faith Pillow, Bill Dickens, Bill Preskill, Jes Richmond

Howlin’ At The Moon

Sugar Hill

5:03

 

Who Could’ve Known

Garnet Rogers, Greg Brown, Karen Savoca, Pete Heitzman / Garnet Rogers

Live at the Black Sheep

Alcove Records

6:17

 

A Better Man

Sam Bush / Kevin Moore, Anders Osbourne

King of My World

Sugar Hill

5:16

 

Why Shouldn’t We?

Mary Chapin Carpenter / Mary Chapin Carpenter

The Calling

Zoe Records

5:05

 

I Gotta Believe in Something

Cindy Bullens / Cindy Bullens

Heaven and Earth

Artemis Records

6:09

 

People Get Ready

Eva Cassidy / Curtis Mayfield

Songbird

Blix Street Records

3:16

 

Nowhere to Go

Karen Savoca, Greg Brown, Garnet Rogers, Pete Heitzman / Karen Savoca

Live at the Black Sheep

Alcove Records

5:57

 

On With The Song (for the Dixie Chicks)

Mary Chapin Carpenter / Mary Chapin Carpenter

The Calling

Zoe Records

3:55

 

Howling at the Moon

Sam Bush / James L. Ratts, John McEuen

Howlin’ At The Moon

Sugar Hill

2:58

 

The Wizard of Oz

Sam Bush / Sam Bush, Joe Pennell

King of My World

Sugar Hill

2:37

 

As Long as you Love

Cindy Bullens, and Reid Bullens / Cindy Bullens

Heaven and Earth

Artemis Records

5:46

 

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.