Monthly Archives: March 2024

Purple flowers Albuquerque 3

Albuquerque, New Mexico
26 March 2024

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26 March 2024

Walking. Albuquerque.
Happy Birthday Sean. Love you, son.
Third Movement of the Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Hello, Dolly! – 2017 Broadway Cast of Hello, Dolly! & Bette Midler
I’ve Decided to Marry You – Lauren Worsham, Lisa O’Hare & Bryce Pinkham
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly – Julie Andrews
I Am What I Am – Donald Pippin & George Hearn
A Weekend in the Country – A Little Night Music Ensemble
Under the Sea – Samuel E. Wright
I’m Here – Cynthia Erivo
One Hand, One Heart – Matt Cavenaugh & Josefina Scaglione
Do-Re-Mi – Mary Martin, Lauri Peters, William Snowden, Kathy Dunn, Joseph Stewart, Marilyn Rogers, Mary Susan Locke & Evanna Lien
Everything Old Is New Again – Hugh Jackman, Patrick Vaccariello & Various Artists
Your Daddy’s Son – Audra McDonald
I’m Here – Cynthia Erivo
Ease On Down the Road – The Wiz
Overture/One in the Highlands/Brigadoon – Delbert Anderson & The Chorus
Seventy-Six Trombones – Robert Preston
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor

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Purple flowers Albuquerque 2

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
Albuquerque, New Mexico
24 March 2024

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Purple flowers Albuquerque 1

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
Albuquerque, New Mexico
24 March 2024

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25 March 2024

Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights (1965) reaches Montgomery.
Remembering courage and grace and faith.
If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Oh Freedom – Harry Belafonte
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
If I Had a Hammer – Odetta
God Will Take Care of You – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Steal Away/Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Come by Here – Marchers
Blowing in the Wind – Peter, Paul & Mary
We Shall Not Be Moved – Marchers
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Which Side Are You On? – James Orange and Protestors
Everybody Wants Freedom – Demonstrators a March
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Joan Baez
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Demonstrators at March
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round – Two Little Girls at March
This Little Light of Mine – Workers in Selma at Mass for Jimmie Lee Jackson
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round – James Orange and Youth
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Amazing Grace – Fannie Lou Hamer
We Shall Overcome – Workers in Selma at March
Glory – Common and John Legend

Freedom Songs: Selma. Alabama provided a primary resource for this playlist. Other artists appeared at the “Stars for Freedom” Rally on the evening of March 24 although I am not sure whether the songs I choose are the ones they performed.

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Purple, not flowers, prickly pear

Albuquerque, New Mexico
23 March 2024

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24 March 2024

Martyrdom of Saint Oscar Romero.
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day, marking the arrival of the last of 17 detachments of the Cherokee people in Indian Territory following the Trail of Tears.
CheEl Padre Antonio Y Su Mongaguillo Andres – Ruben Blades
Homenaje a Rutillio Grande – SON Tres Cuartos
Oscar Romero – Dafydd Iwan
Romero – The Project
El Salvador – Peter, Paul, & Mary
Oscar Romero – Brotes de Olivo
Eulogy to Oscar Romero – Jean-Luc Ponty
Oscar Romero – Garth Hewitt
Oscar Romero – Richard Gilpin
Archbishop Oscar Romero Memorial – Fran Schultz
Cherokee Stomp – Litefoot, feat. Tommy Wildcat
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
On the Road Where They Cried – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Orphan Child – Cherokee National Children’s Choir

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Flowers, not purple, Albuquerque 1

Albuquerque, New Mexico
photo by Lucy Koenig-Reinke
22 March 2024

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21 March 2024

Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
firebird – Mel Hsu
Always in My Head – India.Arie
Cherry – FLETCHER & Hayley Kiyoko
Woman of the Phoenix – Nanci Griffith
Green Light – Beyonce
The Soul Shall Be Free – Nobuko Miyamoto
Midnight Is a Horn Player – Joy Harjo
Take Me There – Magdalen Hsu-Li
Blood Done Sign My Name – Mary D. Williams
Move Over – Janis Joplin
Stick Game Song – Mary Ann Meanus and Verbena Green
Since You’ve Been Gone – Aretha Franklin
Aurukun Moonlight – Ruby Hunter

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20 March 2024

Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
LLego Con Tres Heridas – Joan Baez
Barbados – Our Native Daughters
Hound Dog – Big Mama Thornton
2 Lit 2 Late Interlude – Nicki Minaj
Shittosarerubeki Jinsei – Hikaru Utada
Simple Life – Nanci Griffith
Crossroads – Eileen Ivers
Hey Love – Emily Wurrramara
Spirit Lullaby – Sweet Honey in the Rock
When Elephants Cry – Mayuka Thais
Wet Heart, No Tear – Ruby Hunter
Never Say Die – The Chicks
Same Old Years – Annie Humphrey
I Don’t Care – Rim Banna
For a Dancer – Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
Video – India.Arie
The Blue Hour: No. 10, Even if by Forgetting – Shara Nova

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