March 25, 2024 · 1:38 pm
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.
March 3, 2024 · 7:55 pm
Walking. Germantown.
Harry Belafonte Birthday. Korean Independence Movement.
Abraham, Martin and John – Harry Belafonte
Day O – Harry Belafonte
A Hole in the Bucket – Harry Belafonte & Odetta
Jamaica Farewell – Harry Belafonte
Oh Freedom – Harry Belafonte
Gone Are My Children – Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba
My Angel – Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba
Give Us Our Land – Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba
Nongqongqo (To Those We Love) – Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba
Kwazulu (In the Land of the Zulus) – Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba
Song of the Independence Movement – Oasis Music Choir
Soribotari Independence Movement – Soribotari
Movement/Korean Protest – Resist and Exist
Independence Movement Day – DIA
Indeoendence Army Aeguukga – Lim Hyung Joo
In Praise of Death – Lim Hyung Joo
Song of Hope – Lim Hyung Joo
March 7, 2023 · 7:58 pm
Gym at the Apartment. Treadmill.
Harry Belafonte. Korean Independent Movement Day.
Abraham, Martin and John – Harry Belafonte
Day O – Harry Belafonte
One More Dance – Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba
A Hole in the Bucket – Harry Belafonte & Odetta
Jamaica Farewell – Harry Belafonte
Oh Freedom – Harry Belafonte
Song of the Independence Movement – Oasis Music Choir
Soribotari Independence Movement Day – Soribotari
Peace for Whom – No Seung Hyuk
Walking Along the Road – Ye Ram
The Solitary Song – Kim Dong San
Movement/Korean Protest – Resist and Exist
If Your Heart Is Like Us – Hwang Kyung Ha
For Lack of a Better Words – Oh Jae Hwan
Peace – Jeong Jin Seok
Spiritual – Hyungjoo Lee, feat. Ye Ram
Independence Movement Day – DIA
January 5, 2019 · 9:17 pm
Two walks – about 60 minutes total. Morningside Gardens.
Angels We Have Heard on High – Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
Joy to the Word – Cwmbach Male Choir
The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
Christmas in the Trenches – John McCutcheon
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
I Pray on Christmas – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Good King Wenceslas – The Boys of County Bucks
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Celtic Woman
O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Pentatonix
People Look East – Choir of St. George’s Chapel Windsor
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Darlene Silversmith
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day – Harry Belafonte
Away in a Manger – Jack Gladstone
I Saw Three Ships – North Coast Men’s Chorus
Angels We Have Heard on High – Robert Mirabel
Canticle of the Turning – Royer Cooney, Gary Daigle & Theresa Donohoo
The last day for the four songs to appear. Tomorrow will be one last playlist of Christmas music, even though it is Epiphany. But the “big four” will not appear.
Filed under Exercise, Music, New York, playlist
Tagged as Christmas, Harry Belafonte, Jackson Browne, John McCutcheon, The Band, the Chieftains, Tommy Sands, walking
December 24, 2012 · 6:08 pm
Every year about this time, I post about Christmas music. Here I go again.
I like Christmas music. I manage to refrain from playing it on my iPod until Advent begins. Once that first Sunday of preparation and waiting dawns – away I go!
This year, after attending the
Bring Leonard Peltier Home in 2012 Concert that he co-hosted with Pete Seeger, I purchased my first
Harry Belafonte CD – a CD of Christmas music. I had known of Belafonte’s incredible commitment to social justice. Now, through the lens of Christmas, I appreciate him as an artist.
Two Christmas songs I have to hear over and again at this season are:
“Christmas in the Trenches” by John McCutcheon
“The Rebel Jesus” by Jackson Browne
How about you? What music speaks to you at Christmas?
See you along the Trail.
Along the Graybeard Trail 