I Don't Want You to Weep After Me - live Jan '25 - Marc Nerenberg with Claire & Laura Latendresse

On Jan. 2, I posted a home solo version of this song, my updated version of an old Bahamian spiritual. I recently learned it from a 65 year old Pete Seeger record (which I then modified in various ways to make it more politically explicit and relevant to today, thus developing my own personal distinctive version).
In the descriptive notes of that Jan 2 version I noted that the song seemed to be a very good one for audience participation, and said I'd a "probably be opening the 2025 season of Montreal's Yellow Door Hootenanny, which I host, with this song next week. And I imagine I'll get some more voices joining in on it then." And that's exactly what I did.
This is the video of that opening song at the kick off of the 2025 Hootenanny season. There was a surprisingly large crowd that night, and more voices were added, indeed! Not only did I solicit the audience to sing, but I also drafted Claire and Laura Latendresse, two of the members of the trio, "Claire Laura & Thomas", that were the Featured Performers that evening, to join me on harmony.
In this video, I've retained a little snippet of the song introduction to set the stage, and I've also made two edits within the song itself. My motivation for that was to remove a spot where I'd lost my place and actually stopped, foolishly drawing attention to my error.
The best way to fix that seemed to be to remove the end of the stanza where the mistake was made along with the beginning of the next stanza, and join what was left into a new stanza. When I tried that out, I was surprised to find that I actually preferred the song that way, and I went ahead and tried performing that same kind of reconstructive surgery on the next two stanzas, turning them into one as well. Since I rather like this shortened version of the song, I've kept it that way here in the video, and I intend to keep the changes as integral to me version in the future.
This was played on my 1910 Fairbanks Banjo, strung with period appropriate synthetic gut strings, tuned in the intervals of "Open G" tuning, but pitched a tone and a half low into the key of E. I play it almost entirely using old-time thumb-lead two-finger picking, with minimalist brief bits of clawhammer technique in spots. This was recorded on 10 January 2025, at the Yellow Door Hootenanny, in downtown Montréal, Québec.