Category Archives: Music

2 May 2025

Walking. La Cueva neighborhood.
Brave New World Sera
To All Relations – Nobuko Miyamoto, feat. Duncan Pain & Francis Awe
Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90, B. 166, “Dumky”: I. Lento maestoso – Allegro quasi doppio movimento – Lento maestoso – Allegro – Ahn Trio
克卜勒 – Yanzi Sun
Wo Yao Fei Shang Qing Tian – Grace Chang
Face My Fears – Hikaru Utada & Skrillex
The Chasm – Nobuko Miyamoto
Start Over – BoA
Departed Silence – Resist and Exist
心疼的小寶寶 – Teresa Teng
Sailin’ – Jake Shimabukuro, feat. Henry Kapono
What Is the Color of Love – Nobuko Miyamoto
Call of the Wild – MILCK
원해요 -TARIN

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30 April 2025

North Dominga Baca Park.
Starman – David Bowie
Frank and Jesse James – Warren Zevon
Leaving Winslow – Jackson Browne
Well – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
When Summer Ends – Lewis & Clark Original Soundtrack
Higher Ground – Iris DeMent
4th Of July – -The Unforgettable Fire
Peggy Gordon – The Chieftains
Beautiful Son – Annie Humphrey
History Of Us – Indigo Girls
Another One Bites The Dust – Queen
Manzanillo Bay – Arlo Guthrie
Bend Down Low -Carlos Jones and the PLUS Band
Go to Sleep Now My Pumpkin – Sharon, Lois & Bram

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28 April 2025

Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood. Albuquerque.
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Tema. L’istesso tempo – Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
Hasta Que Pueda – Amanda Martinez
There Is Power In a Union – Joe Glazer
Shining Star – Earth, Wind & Fire
The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen – Leon Russell
Darma 5- Sorma
Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War- Paul Simon Hearts and Bones
You Put the Sugar in My Bowl – Rhiannon Giddens
Luck Be a Lady – Billy Porter
I’ll Take You There – The Staple Singers
At the Foot of the Mountain – Eliza Gilkyson
Traveling Shoes – Sweet Honey In the Rock
When Napi Roasted Gophers – Jack Gladstone
Canto Libre – Victor Jara
Banana Moon Sky – Deidre McCalla
Blue Roses Falling – Jake Shimabukuro, feat. Meena Cho\

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16 April 2025

Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
Got to Get You into My Life – Earth, Wind & Fire
Sugar Ray – Miles Davis
Cherokee Legacy – Jay Red Eagle
The Times They Are A-Changin’ – The Byrds
Let It Be – Paul McCartney
It’s Summer – The Temptations
Shakers And Movers – Midnight Oil
Sea Turtle – Hermanito
A Forgotten Spot (Olvidado) – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Zion & Lennox, De La Ghetto, Ivy Queen, Pj Sin Suela & Lucecita Benitez
Tamatoa – Te Vaka
Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad – Rhiannon Giddens
Summer of Love – Jefferson Airplane
Menina Moca – Dusko Goykovich
The Shape That I’m In – Paul Brady
Little Richard’s Bible 3- Elton John & Brandi Carlile

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31 March 2025

Hiking. Mesa View Trail, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. Quarai Ruins, Salinas Pueblos Missions National Monument.
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

And a couple for Bill
Spanish Inquisition (Part 1) – Monty Python
Spanish Inquisition (Part 2) – Monty Python
Spanish Inquisition (Part 3) – Monty Python
Spanish Inquisition Revisited – Monty Python
Drop Kick Me Jesus – Ray Stevens

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27 March 2025

Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Remembering Buddy Monahan.
Boomer Sooner – The University of Oklahoma Marching Band
Revolution – Kirk Franklin & The Family
Rock and Roll All Nite – Kiss
Native Child – Thunder Bird Sisters
Running – Joy Harjo
Some How – Nizhóní Girls
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
I Am Your Friend – Joanne Shenandoah
Earth And Sun – Sharon Burch
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
Fight for the Rights – Kelly Fraser
Gentle Warrior – Kalolin Johnson, feat. Devon Paul & Thunder Herney
Heart Of A Hero – Shelley Morningsong
Native America – J25
No More – Fawn Wood
Ohenton Karihwatekwen Karenna – Bear Fox, feat. Lawrence Laughing

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23 March 2025

Walk 1. La Cueva neighborhood,
Walk 2. La Cueva neighborhood.
Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Stand Up – Cynthia Erivo
Lose Again – Karla Bonoff
Tinku – Holly Near & Inti Illimani
Forevermore – Hikaru Utada
La Llorona – Joan Baez
Black Woman – Queen Ifrica
Never Let Go – Nitanis “Kit” Largo
Going Back To Harlan – Emmylou Harris
Good Pressure – Shea Diamond
WHEN I GROW UP – Yaeji
Going Home – Ulali
FIREMOUTH – Sera HOLY DISORDER
Never Been Gone – Carly Simon
Bleeding Rivers – Copper Wimmin
Chromatica III – Lady Gaga
Somespace – Toshi Reagon
Brave – Sara Bareilles
Scarecrow – Melissa Etheridge
Best of Me – Yuna
All That You Have Is Your Soul – Tracy Chapman
Freedom Now – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Mama Loves Me – Deidre McCalla
Dark End of the Street – Eva Cassidy & Chuck Brown
Ice Cream – Sarah McLachlan
Standing on the Sun – Beyoncé, feat. Mr. Vegas
A Sorta Fairytale – Tori Amos
Missing You -Tina Turner
No No Keshagesh – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67: IV. Allegretto – Adagio – Ahn Trio
My Baby Just Cares For Me – Nina Simone
Time After Time -Eva Cassidy
Book of Days – Enya
Beloved Wife – Natalie Merchant
Toothsayer – Tanya Tagaq
Day Dreaming – Aretha Franklin
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Roberta Flack

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22 March 2025

Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
World Water Day.
Water – Blame Sally
Water – David LaMotte
Red Streaking Into The Water – R. Carlos Nakai
Shimmer, Prayer For Cleaning the Water – Joy Harjo
Don’t Go Near the Water – Johnny Cash
Sailing Down My Golden River – Peggy Seeger
Shining River – Eric Bogle with John Munro & Brent Miller
Ocean Song – Mary Hopkin
My River – Tom Paxton
Fire & Water (Take Me Down) – Christine Anu
Mighty River – Mary J. Blige
In the River: A Protest Song – Raye Zaragoza
Water Is Life – Will Evans
Bleeding Rivers – Copper Wimmin
Trouble in the Water – Common, Malik Yusef & Kumasi, feat. Aaron Fresh, Choklate & Laci Kay
When the Levee Breaks – Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy
Wading Through – Terence Blanchard
Backwater Blues – Bessie Smith
Water Is Life -Wanita Bird
Woman from Liberia – Jimmie Rodgers
Mni Wiconi – Nicky Murray
Mni Wiconi – Ana Saldaña
Mni Wiconi – Mariana Cortesão
Mni Wiconi – J.J. Kent
Water Is Life – Sara Thomsen
The Living Waters – Sweet Honey In the Rock
Mni Wiconi – Social Justice Disco, Phat Man Dee & Liz Berlin, feat. Johnny Creed Coe & Sun Bear Coe

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21 March 2025

Walking. Albuquerque. Inez, Zuni, and Classic Uptown neighborhoods.
Three unique themes to play list.
World Down Syndrome Day. Songs and artists are favorites of Charley Palmer as suggested by Brad Palmer.
MacArthur Park – Richard Harris
Walking In Memphis – Cher
Dancing Queen – Cher
MacArthur Park – Donna Summer
But, Mr. Adams – 1776 Original Cast
The Egg – 177 6 Original Cast
Sit Down, John / Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve / Till Then – 1776 Original Cast
Believe – Cher
If I Could Turn Back Time – Cher
The Lees of Old Virginia = 1776 Original Cast
Yours, Yours, Yours = 1776 Original Cast

Sharpeville Massacre
Sharpeville – Hugh Masekela
Sharpeville 1960 – Moloto
Sharpeville Day – Sizwe Zako
SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE part 1 – ROOTS HITEK & DISCIPLES
Nkosi Sikelel ‘IAfrica – Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Women’s History Month.

Stay Gentle – Brandi Carlile
Plenty – Sarah McLachlan
Big My Secret – Ahn Trio
deep in the woods – Hayley Kiyoko
Penny To My Name – Eva Cassidy
Think (About It) – Lyn Collins
I Want You Back – Yuna
Zero G (And I Feel Fine) – Eileen Ivers
All That Jazz – BoA
Baby, I Love Your Way – Dolly Parton
Poor Man’s Blues – Bessie Smith
We Can’t Go On This Way – Ella Fitzgerald
Remembering Me – Cate Le Bon
First of May – Rhiannon Giddens & Elftones
Dream Variations – Sweet Honey In the Rock
Another Horse – Annie Humphrey
Fantasy Beginning – Carole King

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20 March 2025

Walking. Albuquerque. The Shire to Narnia.
Spring equinox.
Spring – Tracy Chapman –
Beech Spring – Lewis & Clark – Original Soundtrack Recording
Copland: Appalachian Spring – Very Slowly – Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Copland: Appalachian Spring – Allegro – Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Copland: Appalachian Spring – Moderato – Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Copland: Appalachian Spring – Fast – Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Copland: Appalachian Spring – Subito Allegro – Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Copland: Appalachian Spring – As At First (Slowly) – Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Copland: Appalachian Spring – Doppio Movimento – Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic
Copland: Appalachian Spring – Moderato, Coda – Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Le Sacre du Printemps – Pt. I: I. Introduction – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: II. The Augurs of Spring: Dances of the Young Girls – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: III. Ritual of Abduction – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: IV. Spring Rounds – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: V. Ritual of the Rival Tribes – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: VI. Procession of the Sage – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: VII. The Sage – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: VIII. Dance of the Earth – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps – Pt. 2: IX. Introduction p Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: X. Mystic Circles of the Young Girls – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: XI. Glorification of the Chosen One – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: XII. Evocation of the Ancestors – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: XIII. Ritual Action of the Ancestors – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Le Sacre du Printemps: XIV. Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) – Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Sparrows in the Spring Grass – Jessita Reyes
The Sun Shines – Ojibway People
Travelling Through Wonders – Marie & Julia Thomsen
My Fellow Creatures -5 Carlos Cipa
Spring – Hania Rani
Ostara – Lisa Thiel
Serenade To Spring – Secret Garden
The Lullaby of Spring – Donovan
Spring In Manhattan – Meredith d’Ambrosio
The Harvest Home Suite: Spring – Jay Ungar
Herald of Spring – Peter Ostroushko
Sakamoto’s Spring – TOKiMONSTA
Silent Spring – emma’s revolution
So Early, Early In the Spring – Judy Collins
Some Other Spring – Billie Holiday
Spring Is Here – Ahmad Jamal
Spring Always Takes You By Surprise – Lydia Adams Davis
Spring Sunshine – Roh Young Sim
The Springtime It Brings On the Shearing – Seona McDowell
Springtime Laughter – Spyro Gyra
summerfallwinter spring – JANNABI
Vivaldi – Spring (After The Four Seasons, RV 269) – Black Violin
When Springtime Comes Again – Verm Williams
Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 “La Primavera” (Spring): I. Allegro – Joshua Bell & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 “La Primavera” (Spring): II. Largo – Joshua Bell & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 “La Primavera” (Spring): III. Allegro – Joshua Bell & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Four Seasons – Melanie Durrant
Here Comes The Sun – Richie Havens
Here Comes the Sun – Yo-Yo Ma, James Taylor, Arnold McCuller, David Lasley, Kate Markowitz, Andrea Zonn & Caroline Taylor
Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles

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