Residents of a north Donegal nursing home will participate in a special national music performance to mark Nursing Homes Week 2023.
The community at Lake House Nursing Home in Portnablagh, supported by Activities Coordinator Geraldine Desmond Hilley, are getting in fine tune for the Music Speaks broadcast, to take place Monday 21st August.
Around a dozen residents, male and female, will perform Molly Malone for the event.
The Music Speaks performance will be broadcast to over 400 nursing homes with 25,000 residents across the country and available for the broader public to watch via NHI.ie. It features renditions of classics such as Danny Boy, Molly Malone, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Can’t Help Falling in Love, You Are My Sunshine, Que Sera, Sera, intertwined with performances by residents of different instruments, including piano, accordion, bodhrán.
Over 100 nursing home residents from over 30 nursing homes are taking part.
Nursing homes in Donegal and across the country will be hosting music-themed celebrations Monday 21st to Sunday 27th August to mark Nursing Homes Week 2023.
The Music Speaks festival will include performances from Mobile Music Machine with Niamh Kavanagh, Sive, Ross Scanlon performs John McCormack, John Spillane.
Tadhg Daly, Nursing Homes Ireland CEO states: “Our Music Speaks performance encompasses one resident who is 100 years of age playing accordion, a 98-year-old delivering an excellent piano solo, a 95-year old singing Boys from the County Armagh. Residents love to sing and perform and the Music Speaks extravaganza honours the talents of the very special people in our society who are nursing home residents.”
