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Traveling Music 12-2-18

Traveling Music

Date: 12-2-18

Shonti Elder

 

Happy Hanukka, beginning tonight!

 

Format:  Tune Title

Performer / Composer

Album Title

Recording Company

Length

 

Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow

Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson

The Jethro Tull Christmas Album

Fuel

3:37

 

Erev Shel Shoshanim – instrumental

John McCutcheon – Josef Hader

Winter Solstice

Rounder

4:37

 

The Messenger

Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum / Mark Simos

Winter’s Grace

Signature Sounds

5:11

 

Welcome Home, Kind Stranger

Tommy Sands / Tommy Sands

To Shorten the Winter

Green Linnet

5:08

 

Apples in Winter / Frost is All Over / A Merry Christmas (Jigs) – instrumentals

Eileen Ivers / Traditional

An Nollaig

Musical Bridge

4:19

 

Sleigh Ride

Pentatonix /

That’s Christmas to Me

Ptxofficial.com

2:17

 

Peace

Misty River / Dana Abel

Misty River

Mistyriverband.com

3:38

 

A Rovin’ on a Winter’s Night

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band /

 

Hanerot Halalu

Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen / traditional

Voices of Winter

Gadfly Records

2:23

 

On a Winter’s Day

Karan Casey, Niall Vallely, Robbie Overson / Karan Casey

Celtic Christmas, Silver Anniversary Edition

Windham Hill

3:44

 

Christmas Day Ida Moarnin, Un Flambeau, Jeanette Isabella – instrumentals

John McCutcheon – traditional

Winter Solstice

Rounder

3:15

 

All The Valley Down

Hannah Rarity with Cherish the Ladies / Maurice McGrath

Christmas in Ireland

www.cherishtheladies.com

3:36

 

St. Basil’s Hymn – harp instrumental

Patrick Ball / Traditional Greek

The Christmas Rose

Fortuna

2:31

 

The Hanukkah Waltz – instrumental

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones / traditional

Jingle All The Way

Rounder

2:34

 

Christ Child Lullaby

 

Kathy Mattea / Traditional

Christmas at Mountain Stage

Blue Plate Music

4:15

 

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.