Shonti Elder

"(Elsa Aegerter) and I took a six-week vacation and ... stopped in a whole bunch of Southeast towns ... Everywhere we went, we contacted somebody we had met at the Juneau festival. They invited us into their house, or told us a good place to be. It was like creating a network of family and musicians. One of the most fun times was when we were kicked out of the Alaskan bar because they were closing. It was starting to rain a little bit, and there was this fellow, Torre Jorgensen. He was a fiddle player, and he just became the ringleader. I left my fiddle case in the bar, and we marched down to the port there. We were playing music there in some kind of little shelter, and it was a great time. We started at 2 or 3 in the morning, and we played until this bagpiper showed up."

- Shonti Elder, Wasilla, musician