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28 March 2024

Walking. Albuqurque.
I Heard an Owl – Carrie Newcomer
Rise Up _ Audra Day
One Woman: A Song for UN Women
Born This Way – Lady Gaga
There’s No Stopping Us Know – The Supremes
I May Want a Man – Joanne Shenandoah
Son of the Coats – Barbara Dane
Summertime – Janis Joplin
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – Joan Baez
Think – Aretha Franklin
My Sweetie Went Away – Bessie Smith
Hold Out Your Heart – Carly Simon
Hype – Chloe Tang
The Wind and the Wolf – Keiko Matsui
We Do What We Can – Sheryl Crow
All Good People – Delta Rae

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27 March 2024

Walking. Albuquerque.
Remembering Buddy Monahan.
Boomer Sooner – The University of Oklahoma Marching Band
Revolution – Kirk Franklin & The Family
Rock and Roll All Nite – Kiss
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
Ohenton Karihwatekwen Karenna – Bear Fox
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
No More – Fawn Wood
Native America – J25
I Am Your Friend – Joanne Shenandoah
Running – Joy Harjo
Gentle Warrior – Kaolin Johnson
Fight for the Rights – Kelly Fraser
Some How – Nizhoni Girls
Earth and Sun – Sharon Burch
Heart of a Hero – Shelley Morningsong
Native Child – Thunder Bird Sisters

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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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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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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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17 March 2024

I’ll Walking. Gym in the Apartment. Louisville Waterfront Park.
Hand weights. Gym in the Apartment.
Soldier’s Song – The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
God Save Ireland – Barleycorn
Easter Rebellion – Sinead O’Connor
James Connolly – James McEvoy
he Minstrel Boy – James Galway
Whiskey in the Jar – Thin Lizzy
Women of Ireland – The Wolfe Tones
Long Journey Home – The Chieftains with Elvis Costello
4 Green Fields – The Dublin City Ramblers
Song for Ireland – The Irish Tenors
A Nation Once Again – Paddy Reilly
Roger Casement – Eugene McEldowney
The Big Fellah – Black 47
There Were Roses – Tommy Sands
My Land – Celtic Woman
I’ll Walk Beside You – Cherish the Ladies
Wind That Shakes the Barley – The Chieftains
Bobby Sands – Claymore
O’Donnell’s Lament – Eileen Ivers
Only Our Rivers Run Free – The Molly Maguires
Back Home in Derry – Christie Moore
The Galway Girl – Steve Earle
The Rocky Road to Dublin – Cruachan
Ellis Island – Mary Black
On Raglan Road – The Dubliners
On Grafton Street – Frances Black
Hills of Connemara – Gaelic Storm
Against the Wind – Maire Brennan
The Boys of the Old Brigade – Paddy McGuigan
Peace on Earth – U2
Amhrainn Na Bfhiann – Pearse

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16 March 2024

Walking. Germantown and Schnitzelburg.
My Lai Massacre day.
Song for Hugh Thompson – David Rovics
For Hugh Thompson Who Stood His Ground – The Oaks
Pinkville Helicopter – Thom Parrott
Mỹ Lai, opera composed by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) 
Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ
Lullaby
First Landing: Flight
First Landing: Descent
First Landing: The Ditch
Second Landing: Hovering
Second Landing: Bunker
Third Landing: Postcard
Third Landing: Fishing

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15 March 2024

Walking inside. Gym in the Apartment.
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
The Blue Hour: No 11, Firmament – Shara Nova & A Far Cry
Ngerraberrakernama – Emily Wurramara
Academia – Sia
The Queen Of Connemara Carraroe Jig The Lilting Fisherman – Cherish the Ladies
Eleanor Rigby – Aretha Franklin
Pancho & Lefty – Emmylou Harris
I Understand – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Đời Gọi Em Biết Bao Lần – Hồng Nhung
Farewell My Love – Eileen Ivers
I Live Not Where I Love – Mary Black
xoxo moongirl – Mel Hsu
Rock in This Pocket – Suzanne Vega
Siempre Te Amare – Lucha Reyes
Storm – Annie Humphreys

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14 March 2024

Fannie Lou Hamer Birthday. Pi Day.
All songs by Fannie Lou Hamer unless otherwise noted.
Precious Lord
On Being a Sharecropper
Run Mourner, Run
City Called Heaven
All the Pretty Little Horses
I’m Gonna Land on the Shore
Oh Lord, You Know Just How I Feel
I’m Going Down to the River
Jesus Is My Only Friend
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
Walk with Me
This Little Light of Mine
Mass Meeting Speech
Certainly Lord
Woke up This Morning
American Pie – Shea Diamond
Blueberry Pie – Bette Midler
Narcissa Cutie Pie – Joi
Sweetest Pie – Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa

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