5 February 2012, 8:57 pm
Help us bring the gift of nostalgic music to sick, sad and lonely people in nursing homes. There is some good Karma in this. The patients in these places REALLY need us ! Nursing home patients tell us that living in a nursing home is like being in prison.... imprisoned by your own body, your own mind and trapped sometimes by circumstances. It is a place where people basically are just waiting to die. So how you pass the time is really important. To get an idea of what we do check out this video we did in one day... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkmLpMdgakU Help us change the world of nursing home patients by changing how nursing homes entertain their patients! As a FULL BAND (small combo with singers) we give nursing home patients something REALLY special.... something they talk about for months. We are a group with a revolving roster, so musicians give time when they can spare it. There is no ongoing time commitment, no weekly commitment, no rehearsals.... you give only the time you can give when you have it. We make it easy for you to be involved in doing really important work. We can guarantee that if you like people then you will love doing this. You can't imagine how much joy you can get from performing to people who not only appreciate you.... they NEED you. You will love doing this even more if you like playing that old timer music... old jazz/R&B/classic oldie rock, Motown... but mostly swing era tunes. This is music that will bring back memories of better days.... because that is about they have, their memories. Thanks SO MUCH to all the musicians who have responded so far ! We have some awesome people who have joined our group. If you haven't heard from us lately please contact us again since it has been hard for us to keep track of the many people who have contacted us. We need more musicians to fill out the roster because many times people will not be available. The other musicians involved in this project consider it a privilege to play for people pushed in on wheelchairs or sickbeds attached to IV units. You know how special it made us feel to watch an audience like that tapping their feet, swaying back and forth..... even singing along? Our goal is to give them a good show .... to go FAR beyond the kind of music they usually get (which is usually a guy with a Karaoke machine, a small church group, or a guy with an acoustic guitar). Let's give them a little bit of LAS VEGAS, a little bit of that last USO show some of them saw ....music that really connects with them. If your heart felt a tug because of what you just read, please consider joining us as we put a group a group or two together to serve this very special audience. Most of these gigs we would be doing for free but some pay a small amount (gas money). Most of the tunes are jazz standards (we might be able to teach you to play those if you have some skill to begin with) but these old folks like to get GET DOWN sometimes too. We finished up our shows with oldie rock and oldie R&B. It is so much fun to watch these 80, 90, 100 + year old people get down and boogie. Pick up the phone and call ! If using your musical skill to make people happy is something that makes you smile then you need to.call 213 388-8500 till midnight any day of the week (our 408 number is coming soon). Here's some pictures from some of the last show we did. If they move you pick up the phone ! it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests ... Read More »
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