Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood. Strength. Stretching. Balance.
Women’s History Month.
All Day Always – Deidre McCalla
The Good Message – Joanne Shenandoah
Fighter – Christina Aguilera
Jump to Love – Christine Anu
Everybody Business – Kehlani
Farewell To The Old Me – Dar Williams
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You – Eva Cassidy & Chuck Brown
I Am Yours – Tracy Chapman
Somos Sur – Ana Tijoux feat. Shadia Mansour
Colors – Yuna
Never Be the Same – Camila Cabello
You’re Such A 3- Hailee Steinfeld
Walk Over God’s Heaven – Mahalia Jackson
Toneladas – Shakira
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner – September 67
Raging Child – Mary Fahl
Precious – Risuko Aikatsu
Category Archives: playlist
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
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
25 February 2026
Black History Month.
Stretching.
Joe Hill – Paul Robeson
Back Up Offa Me – Talib Kweli
Little Light – Toshi Reagon
Dwedini – Miriam Makeba
State of the Nation – George Clinton
That’s What Friends Are For – Dionne Warwick with Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder
Galiku (Flag) – Gurrumul Djarimirri
Say Yes! – Sweet Honey In the Rock
Doubt – Mary J. Blige
Tarzan of Harlem – Cab Calloway
Black Man – Stevie Wonder
Mean Old World – Sam Cooke
Mississippi Goddam -Nina Simone
Only in My Dreams – Deidre McCalla
Watch Out for Lucy – Dobie Gray
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01 February 2026
Black History Month.
Walking. Arroyo. La Cueva Neighborhood. Stretching.
Let America Be America Again – by Langston Hughes – James Earl Jones
Rise Up – Andra Day
You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow! – Bayard Rustin
Fight for Your Mind – Ben Harper
AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM – Beyoncé
That’s the Way God Planned It – Billy Preston
If I Could Help Somebody – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Hands Up – Blood Orange
History Repeats – Brittany Howard
Young, Gifted and Black – Aretha Franklin
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Black America Again – Common, feat. Stevie Wonder
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) – Marvin Gaye
Woke Up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
Wade In the Water – The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Everytime I Feel the Spirit -The Florida A&M University Concert Choir
Ain’t No New Thing – Gil Scott-Heron
Deep River – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matters) – Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
People Gotta Be Free – Keb’ Mo’
Keep Your Hand On the Plow – Mahalia Jackson
Blood Done Sign My Name – Mary D Williams
Eyes on the Prize – Mavis Staples
Strange Fruit – Nina Simone
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Odetta
Go Down, Moses – Paul Robeson
We March – Prince
Oh Freedom – The Princely Players
We Rise – Rhiannon Giddens
Precious Lord – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Beautiful Struggle – Talib Kweli
You’re Not Alone – Our Native Daughters
Step By Step – Sweet Honey In The Rock
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
I Know Where I’ve Been – Queen Latifah
Grandma’s Hands -Bill Withers
Respect – Otis Redding
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
We Are Each Others Angels – African Children’s Choir
I’ve Got Dreams To Remember – Angélique Kidjo
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Lift Every Voice and Sing – The Boys Choir of Harlem
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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
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Family, Music, playlist
30 January 2026
Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972.
Sunday Bloody Sunday – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Domhnach Na Fola – T With The Maggies
Minds Locked Shut – Christy Moore
Bloody Sunday – Cruachan
Sunday Bloody Sunday – The Wolfe Tones
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
Basements – Frank Waln
The Grey Fox:Main Theme – The Chieftains
Sailin’ – Jake Shimabukuro feat. Henry Kapono
Kifach Hilti – Djamel Laroussi
Vakker Natt – Hilde Hefte
Back in Stride – Frankie Beverly & Maze
I Won’t – H.E.R.
Trees On The Mountains -Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi
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29 January 2026
One Rainy Wish – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Damned For All Time/Blood Money – Jesus Christ Superstar
So High- Dobie Gray
Iye Iye – Kotoja
Walking Down Madison – Kirsty MacColl
Angel – Sarah McLachlan
Queen of the Factory Town – Robert Brashear
Qualified – Dr. John
Om Numah Shivaya – Apache Indian
Take a Stroll Thru Your Mind – The Temptations
It’s All Over Now – Dirty Dozen Brass Band
This Little Light – Mavis Staples
Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10: No. 5, Sehr fließend – The Cleveland Orchestra & Christoph von Dohnányi
Joe Hill’s Last Will Joe Glazer S
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Along the Graybeard Trail 