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Niamh Kavanagh and the Mobile Music Machine perform at Asgard Lodge Nursing Home in Arklow, Co Wicklow | PICTURE: Julien Behal Photography
OVER 100 nursing home residents across the country will show of their singing voices in a national music performance as part of Nursing Homes Week 2023.
The Music Speaks broadcast will take place on Monday, August 21 with over 30 nursing homes taking part.
Noel Smith of Killeline Care Centre, Newcastle West, will sing Never Grow Old.
Traditional Irish musician Peig Ryan, a resident of St Anthony’s, Pallasgreen, will perform Peig Ryan's Polka.
About a dozen residents from Milford Care Centre, Castletroy, will sing You Are My Sunshine, led by Karen Kelly on piano.
Beatrice Adam of Roseville House, Ballysimon, will recite a poem titled Music and Us and James Noonan, also a resident of Roseville House, will sing Shannagolden.
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.
The Music Speaks festival will include performances from Mobile Music Machine with Niamh Kavanagh, Sive, Ross Scanlon performs John McCormack, John Spillane.
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