Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
Brain Damage – Mary Fahl
Too Many Hands – Eagles
At Last – Eva Cassidy
Netukulimk – Morgan Toney
Happy to Be On the Planet – Deidre McCall
Ye Banks and Braes – The Cast Putumayo Kids
Death by Triple Fiddle – Edgar Meyer, Joshua Bell, Sam Bush & Mike Marshall
Susan Falls Apart – Black 47
Black Lives Matter – Nobuko Miyamoto, feat. Gerald Albright
Tine Lasta – Kíla
Gather by the River – Davell Crawford
American Made – Nobuko Miyamoto
Whisper – Marcus King
Underneath the Harlem Moon – Rhiannon Giddens
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8 April 2026
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1 April 2026
Walking, Arroyo.
Pieces Of April – Three Dog Night
April Come She Will – Simon & Garfunkel
I’ll Remember April – Miles Davis
Snow in April – John McCutcheon
Sometimes It Snows In April – Prince
April – The Lumineers
April – Beach Bunny
April Blossoms – Rim Banna
april – eliza blue
April – Akira Kosemura
April – Rose Gray
April -Local Natives
Chain Of Fools – Aretha Franklin
Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
Everybody Plays the Fool – The Main Ingredient
Fool for the City – Foghat
Fool In the Rain – Led Zeppelin
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31 March 2026 – International Transgender Day of Visibility
International Transgender Day of Visibility
Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
I’d Love to Change the World – Shea Diamond
iT – Christine and the Queens
Warrior Heart – Shawnee
Thorn In Your Side – namoli brennet
Body Was Made – Ezra Furman
Girls and Boys – Blur
King for a Day – Green Day
Androgynous – The Replacements
For Marsha P. Johnson – Bryce Dessner
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
We Exist – Arcade Fire
Eudaemonia – Them Are Us Too
What Is This Thing Called Love – Billy Tipton
Sometimes I Cry – Jason Kwan
Heartbreaker – Ah-Mer-Ah-Su
Girl In Blue – Animal Sun
Stand Up – Tom Morello, Shea Diamond & Dan Reynolds, feat. The Bloody Beetroots0
This Is Home – Cavetown
Forever in Sunset – Ezra Furman
To be honest – Christine and the Queens
Gospel For a New Century – Yves Tumor
Feel the Power – Glovibes, Luciana & Sasha Colby
Overthinking out Loud – Moore Kismet
want – Dua Saleh
Born 2 Live – Dreamer Isioma
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5 March 2026
Women’s History Month. Walking. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center. Stretching. Strength work.
The Last Cord – Rim Banna feat. Bugge Wesseltoft & Checkpoint 303
Mr. Bojangles – Nina Simone
Something to Talk About – Bonnie Raitt
我很愉快 – Yanzi Sun
Tamatamatamali – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Back of My Mind H.E.R. feat. Ty Dolla $ign
The Angels – Melissa Etheridge
The Bonny Swans – Loreena McKennitt
Eclipse – Mary Fahl
In a Sentimental Mood – Pura Fé
Nothing – Qrion
Black as Crow – Rhiannon Giddens
A Quiet Place to Live – Carole King with Francesco Turrisi
Ebudae – Enya
He’s an Indian Cowboy in The Rodeo – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Northshore – Tegan & Sara
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4 March 2026
Women’s History Month. Miriam Makeba’s birthday.
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood. Stretching.
All songs by Miriam Makeba.
Mbube
Olilili
Suliram
The Retreat Song
The Click Song
Saduva
Iya Guduza
Lakutshn Ilanga
Umhome
Amampondo
Dubula
Dwedini
Pole Mze
Le Fleuve
Qhude
Mayibuye
Maduna
Kilimanjaro
Kwazulu (In The Land Of The Zulus
Nongqongqo (To Those We Love)
Khawuleza (Hurry Mama Hurry!)
Ndodemnyama Verwoerd (Beware Verwoerd!)
Masakhane 4:44
Amaliya
Pata Pata 2000
‘Cause We Live For Love
Liwawechi
Lindelani
Homeland
In Time
Africa Is Where My Heart Lies
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3 March 2026
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood. Stretching. Stength.
Daybreak in Alabama – Audra McDonald
Never Be the Same – Camila Cabello
Let My Name Be Sorrow – Mary Hopkin
Rosie – Joan Armatrading
Soldier Blue – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Gentle Breeze – Eileen Ivers
Lite a Flame – Laura Nyro
The Morning Will Come – Jennifer Chung
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
DEAF (who are you) – Jessie Reyez
Shame On You – Indigo Girls
Love At The Five And Dime – Nanci Griffith
Space Monkey – Patti Smith Group
Eternal Flame – Susana Hoffs
It All Feels the Same – Tennis
Deep River – Odetta
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26 February 2026
Stretching. Strength. Walking.
Black History Month.
Right Off (take 10) – Miles Davis
Johannesburg – Gil Scott-Heron
Jesus Is on the Main Line – Mavis Staples \
Now Let Me Fly – Kim&Reggie Harris
Black Panther – Kendrick Lamar
Ain’t No Way – Aretha Franklin
Brown Eyed Blues – Ben Harper
See You Go – Yuna
Freedom – Charles Mingus
Aleppo – Leyla McCalla
Peace Behind the Bridge – Carolina Chocolate Drops
Pride – Joy Oladokun
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Bayard Rustin
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star – Gracie’s Corner
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31 January 2026
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
Third Movement of the Violin Concero by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Honky Tonk – Miles Davis
A Song for You – Donny Hathaway
Kanawa – Habib Koité & Bamada
A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
Happy Lesser Bairam Feast – Rim Banna
This World – The Staple Singers
Turn It Over – Noel Paul Stookey
Breathe – Roger Waters
The Kelly’s Keep Comin’ – Kris Kristofferson
Dancer – David Crosby
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28 January 2026
Most days no introduction to the playlist is provided. Today, as does every January 28, marks an exception.
About today’s playlist.
Fifty-one years ago today, my father, William H. Koenig, died in a plane crash. A private pilot, he was flying with a colleague to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to advocate for funds for the Grove City school district where they were working. My father served as the assistant superintendent.
They did not make it to the state capital. The plane went down. Both men died.
Prior to becoming a school administrator he had been a high school band director. He kept his hands in music as he career moved in a different direction. He played string bass in the pit orchestra for high school musicals and he was the first director of the hand bell choir at our church.
He also directed a community band for several years. For two years, I played baritone horn in that band.
One or another of the bands my father directed, played almost all of the songs on this playlist at some point. Many of them I played under my father’s direction.
Dad – since it fell unto your lot
That you should rise and I should not
I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call
Good night and joy be with you
Walking. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center.
Unless otherwise noted, the artist performing the songs is the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein.
Light Calvary Overture – London Festival Orchestra
Semper Fidelis
The Thunderer
Washington Post
Hands Across the Sea
Radetsky March, Op. 228
Under the Double Eagle
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Stars and Stripes Forever
The British Grenadiers
Rule Bittania
The National Emblem
Rakoczy March/Hungarian March
March of the Toreadors from Carmen, Suite No. 1
Coronation March from Le Prophete
March from the Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33a
War March of the Priests from Athalie, Op, 74
Grand March from Aida
Procession of the Sardar from Two Caucasian Sketches, Op. 10
March from Symphonic Metamorphoses
Pomp and Circumstance
Scotland the Brave – The Pipes & Drums of the Royal Tank Regiment
Anchors Aweigh
Le Marseillaise
Fest March from Tanhauser
Colonel Bogey
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Along the Graybeard Trail 