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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Purple flowers Albuquerque 5

Albuquerque, New Mexico
26 March 2024

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Flowers, not purple, Albuquerque 2

Albuquerque, New Mexico
28 March 2024
photo by Lucy Koenig-Reinke

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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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Purple flowers Albuquerque 4

Albuquerque, New Mexico
26 March 2024

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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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Purple flowers Albuquerque 3

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
Albuquerque, New Mexico
24 March 2024

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Purple flowers Albuquerque 2

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
Albuquerque, New Mexico
24 March 2024

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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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Purple, not flowers, prickly pear

Albuquerque, New Mexico
23 March 2024

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