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Juneteenth 19 June 2025

Juneteenth.
Juneteenth – Suav
People Get Ready – The Impressions
Oh Freedom – Mary D. Williams
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys of Alabama
People Gotta Be Free – Keb’ Mo’
Free – Prince
Free – Deniece Williams
Is My Living in Vain – Mattie Moss Clark & The Clark Sisters
This Little Light of Mine – Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom Now – Tracy Chapman
I’m Just a Slave – The Roots
Not a Slave – Dre’ Sr
Freedom – Richie Havens
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Harriet Tubman/Steal Away – Kim & Reggie Harris
Juneteenth – Cast of Black-ish
Say It Loud – I ‘m Black and I’m Proud – James Brown
Alright – Kendrick Lamar
A Brand New Day – The Wiz
Fantasy – Earth, Wind & Fire
Yes We Can, Can – The Pointer Sisters
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway
9th Wonder (Blackitolism) – Digibale Planets
Soul Sista – Bilal
Freedom – Joi
O-O-H Child – The Five Stairsteps
Free – Destiny’s Child
I’ll Take You There – The Staple Singers
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now – McFadden & Whitehead
I Am the Black Gold of the Sun – Rotary Connection & Minnie Riperton
One Nation under a Groove – Funkadelic
Build a House – Rhiannon Giddons & Yo-Yo Ma
Juneteenth Song – Gracie’s Corner
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing – Beyonce

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17 June 2025 – Mother Emanuel

Tenth anniversary of Mother Emanuel.

Wade In the Water – The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Deep River – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Kehembe Eichelberger
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Too Many Martyrs – Kim & Reggie Harris
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody – Mary D Williams
There Is a Balm In Gilead – The Florida A&M University Concert Choir
Drown In My Own Tears – Richie Havens
Ghosts of Charleston – Marc S. Kruza
Mother Emanuel – Shirley Caesar
Emanuel – Dead 27s
The President Sang Amazing Grace – Zoe Mulford
Of Our New Day Begun – Northern Arizona University Wind Symphony & Stephen Meyer

Remembering those who were murdered: the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Cynthia Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and Myra Thompson.

Remembering those present who survive — Polly Sheppard, Tywanza’s mother Felicia Sanders and her granddaughter, and the pastor’s wife, Jennifer Pinckney and one of their daughters.

Remembering the community which survives.

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1 June 2024

Walking. Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Thursday’s Child – David Bowie
I Close My Eyes and Count To Ten – Dusty Springfield
Crazy Game – Indigo Girls
Since I Held You Close – Billy Preston
Listen to the Voices – Holly Near & Emma’s Revolution
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Road to Hell – Andre De Shields
Rocket Man – Elton John
The Promise – Tracy Chapman
C7osure – Lil Nas X
My Funny Valentine – Cynthia Erivo & Billy Porter
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
Walking On Water – Melissa Etheridge
Dark Come Soon – Tegan & Sara

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6 May 2025

Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning Movement. Chair stretching.
家へおいでよ (Come On-A My House) 1 Teresa Teng
Resist (Reprise) – Lea Salonga, feat. Allegiance Original Broadway Cast Allegiance
Bad Friend – Rina Sawayama
Brown Out – Ruby Ibarra
Roses – Annalé
Abracadabra / Yabureta Koi No Naoshi Kata Oshiemasu – Yumi Matsutoya
Kawaikini – Jake Shimabukuro, feat. Kimie Miner
Recluse – Jennifer Chung
Ako ay Pilipino – Kuh Ledesma
forever – Hayley Kiyoko, feat. johnny rain
Crushing – TRACE
Realize – Yanzi
Hype – Chloe Tang
A Good Day (Morning Song) – Priscilla Ahn
A Natural Woman – Christine Anu
Love That Hurts – ZHU, feat. Karnaval Blues & Indiana
Spirit Animal – Jessi

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5 May 2025

Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement.
National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.
Red Dress – Amanda Rheaume, feat. Chantal Kreviazuk
You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind) – Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq
Run Sister Run- Cass McCombs
Through The Flood – Indian City
Say Her Name – Bear Fox
To All MMIW – Northern Cree
Highway of Tears – Layla Zoe
The Highway – N’we Jinan Artists
Break the Silence – N’we Jinan Artists
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
Pray Sister Pray – Crystal Shawanda
Missing You – Joanne Shenandoah
Little Star – iskwē acākosīk
M.M.I.W. (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) – Jahkota, feat. LB, Drezus & Cleo Big Eagle
We Won’t Forget You – N’we Jinan

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3 May 2025

Walking, La Cueva Neighborhood, Morning stretching.
Dynasty – Rina Sawayama
Triggered – Jhené Aiko
Sometimes – Heems
Coming Home – ZHU, feat. Majid Jordan
Ishi Kara Ishi George Takei & Lea Salonga
Kawika – Jake Shimabukuro, feat. Nathan Aweau
Red Cape – Priscilla Ahn
Blue Moon, Black Sea – Emily Wurramara
Under Northern Lights – Keiko Matsui
Perfect Moment – Stiff Gins
Used To You – mxmtoon
닿을락 말락 – TARIN, feat. 슈가볼
My Funny Valentine – Ahn Trio & Rad
Ikaw – Regine Velasquez
honeybee – Mel Hsu
Let Go – Yung Rizzo

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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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