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3 May 2020

Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
(Pacing and stretching more than usual – getting back in the groove)
Moliva – Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Without You – My Fair Lady
Whiskey in the Jar – Thin Lizzy
Brand New Day – Van Morrison
Foxey Lady – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Knew Love – Nanci Griffith
Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Not a Day Goes By  – Merrily We Roll Along (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)
Les Blues De Creve De Faim – BeauSoleil
Cuando Voy Al Trabajo – Victor Jara
Eleanor Rigby – Big Maybelle
Ocean Crossing – Arlo Guthrie
America – Simon & Garfunkel
Ring Them Bells – Joe Cocker
Free All the People – Santana
Land of Canaan – Indigo Girls
Calling All the Children Home – John McCutcheon
The Unwelcome Guest – Billy Bragg & Wilco
Easter Rebellion – Sinead O’Connor
Camilo – State Radio
The Song of Phelim the Fiddler – Mairead Ni Dhomhnail
The Bitch of Living – Spring Awakening (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)
Ego – A Tribe Called Quest
The One Who Really Loves You – Mary Wells
If It Doesn’t Come Naturally Leave It – Al Stewart
Boys and Girls – Kahi
Sweet Baby James – James Taylor
Volcano – The Band

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2 May 2020

Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
Confidence for Quiet – The Corrs
Ej Pada, Pada Rosicka – Once
It Was So Easy – Carly Simon
Into the West – Black 47
On Dark Street – Elton John
Momma – Kendrick Lamar
Laugh with Me – Mary Youngblood
Winds of Old Days – Joan Baez
I Want You – Marvin Gaye
You’re the One – Clannad
The Tullymore Polka – Shaun Davey
Heartache for Everyone – Indigo Girls
The Times They Are A-Changin’ – Bob Dylan
Solo – Victor Jara
Now and Forever – Carole King
I Believe – Elmore James
The Golden Canon – Solaris
The Likes of You Again – Flogging Molly
Waitress – Hop Along
Putcha Body Down – Zendaya
Broadway Baby – Follies (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)

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1 May 2020

Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
The Lusty Month of May – Camelot (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge 2, thanks Sean)
Woman’s Work – Tracy Chapman
The Migrant Worker – Jim Croce
Work for Your Money – Howlin’ Wolf
Working on the Highway – Bruce Springsteen
Ironworking Hubby – Bear Fox
Working Man – Imagine Dragons
Working Class Hero – Green Day
Labor Day – John McCutcheon
Joe Hill – Joan Baez
Mr. President – Randy Newman
9 to 5 – Dolly Parton
Three Miles Down – Gil Scott-Heron
The Hands That Built America – U2
Bracero – Phil Ochs
More Than a Paycheck – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Solidarity Forever – Pete Seeger

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28 April 2020

Pacing. The Shire. (This was the April 25 playlist. I am a bit behind.)
Waltzing Matilda – Seona McDowell
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda – The Pogues
The Diggers’ Legacy – Eric Bogle
Anzac Day – Glen Moffatt
Anzac Parade – Ann-Maree Keefe
I Was Only 19 – Redgum
Anzac Dawn – Katy Soljak
In the Silence – Glyn Lehmann
Mothers Daughters Wives – Judy Small
On Every Anzac Day – John Schumann
Island Home – Christine Anu
Spirit of the Anzacs – Lee Kernaghan
Advance Australia Fair – The Aussie Bush Band
God Defend New Zealand – The Royal New Zealand Band
The Last Post – Band of the Royal Regiment of New Zealand
A-Tisket A-Tasket – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Drop Me off in Harlem – Ella Fitzgerald feat. Duke Ellington
Take the “A” Train – Ella Fitzgerald feat. Duke Ellington
Mood Indigo – Ella Fitzgerald feat. Oscar Peterson
Heart – Damn Yankees (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)

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24 April 2020

Pacing. Stretching with NK Body Philosophy. The Shire.
Dearly Departed – Shakey Graves
Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
When Elephants Cry – Mayuka Thais
Streets of Philadelphia – Bruce Springsteen
Like a Cannonball – Van Morrison
California Dreamin’ – Queen Latifah
The Witch Queen of New Orleans – Redbone
Radium Rain – Bruce Cockburn
Redesigning Women – The Highwomen
Scarlet Tide – Joan Baez
Come on in My Kitchen – Robert Johnson
Bad Reputation – Joan Jett
I Will Be There – Mary Black
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In – The Fifth Dimension
Heading Back to New York City – Joan Armatrading
Easy Street – Annie (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)

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20 April 2020

Posted a day late.
Pacing. The Shire.
Shadow of the Moon – Jack Gladstone
Background – Ruby Ibarra
You Never Give Me Your Money – The Beatles
Bonaparte’s Retreat – Jay Unger & Molly Mason
Deportees – John McCutcheon
Hey Baby – M.A.C.C.
Rock Me on the Water – Annie Humphrey
Matters of the Heart – Tracy Chapman
Bluebird – Howlin’ Wolf
Come Love Come – Rhiannon Giddons
Lundu – The Chieftains
Pigs, Sheep and Wolves – Paul Simon
Astral Lady – Captain Beyond
The Trolly Song – Meet Me in St. Louis (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, part II – thanks to Sean)

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19 April 2020

Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
Cut the Cake – John McCutcheon
Third Movement of the Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Running on Empty – Jackson Browne
The Pony Man – Gordon Lightfoot
38 Planes (Reprise)/Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere – Come from Away
Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
Just My Imagination – The Temptations
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught – South Pacific
I Could Have Danced All Night – My Fair Lady
Dance to the Music – Sly & The Family Stone
Free to Be … You and Me – The New Seekers
Let It Be – The Beatles
Feel Like a Natural Woman – Carole King
Quite Early Morning – The Mammals
Pata Pata 2000 – Miriam Makeba
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

Happy Birthday, Tricia!!

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18 April 2019

Pacing. The Shire.
More than other days, this list was assembled with help from friends and family
A Thousand Winds – Paul Kim (thanks to So Jung Kim)
Nemi – R. Carlos Nakai
Samson, oratorio, Act 3, HWV 57: Let the Bright Seraphim – Kathleen Battle, Wynton Marsalis, et. al. (thanks to Lacey Gilliam)
The North – Elton John
Stolen Apples – Lunasa
Precious Lord – The Blind Boys of Alabama
We Belong – namoli brennet
Whispering Pines – Dar Williams
Candles in the Wind/Lay Down – Melanie
As We Stumble Along – The Drowsy Chaperone
As We Stumble Along (reprise) – The Drowsy Chaperone
(the last two are from Sean for the Playbill Thirty Day Song challenge)

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17 April 2020

Pacing. Core work with NK Body Philosophy. Stretching. The Shire.
Even in My Dreams – Afro Celt Sound System
Erin’s Fair Shore – Aurora Celtic
Doctor Robert – The Beatles
Disorder in the House – Warren Zevon
Dhow Countries – Taj Mahal & The Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar
Detenido por Sospecha – Los Miserables
Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. Le cygne – Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih
Believe in Me – Michelle Williams
Basin Street Blues – Ella Fitzgerald
Acadian Driftwood – The Band
Baby Hold On – Dixie Chicks
Photograph – Ringo Starr
St. Anne’s Reel – John McCutcheon
Mujer de Carne y Hueso – Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy
Ya Got Trouble – The Music Man
A Little Priest – Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(NOTE: The last two are part of the Playbill Thirty Day Song Challenge, with thanks to Sean)

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16 April 2020

Pacing. Core work with NK Body Philosophy. Stretching. The Shire.
Levon – Elton John
John Hardy – Lead Belly
Carolina in My Mind – James Taylor
I Get a Kick out of You – Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
A Stranger in My Place – Joan Baez
Oleo – Miles Davis
The Story So Far – Flogging Molly
Round the Lake – Stiff Gins
Bound for California – James Galway
I Used to Love You – Adina Nyree
I’m on My Way – Gwen Avery
Funny How Time Slips Away – Willie Nelson
You Left Me This Mornin’ – Indigenous
Hot Fun in the Summertime – Sly & The Family Stone
Suite for Woodwind Quintet, Allegro, Henry Cowell – Solaris
Another Hundred People – Company (Playbill Thirty Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)

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