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Entertaining the Elderly

Are you musically inclined?
Do you enjoy entertaining?
Can you spare a little time to entertain the elderly in full time care?

Friends of the Elderly are developing a programme to find volunteers to bring musical entertainment to the elderly in full time care. There are hundreds of elderly people in full time care that would love a little music and song in their lives.

If you would like to entertain the elderly in your locality, please contact us.

Also - If you work with the elderly and would like to bring them some musical entertainment, check out the list of entertainers below, contact us and we will try to match you with a local volunteer entertainer.

Talent

Location

Traditional singer

Sallins, Kildare

Singing, plus gentle movement programme

Killester, Dublin

Two young brothers with guitars; country-western and ballads

Lusk, Dublin

Singer with guitar; ballads

Rialto, Dublin

Singer

Dublin

Singer with acoustic guitar

Drumcondra, Dublin

Mixed voice choir; light and sacred music

Cork City

Singer with acoustic guitar, folk, story telling

Dowra, Co Cavan

Singers, part of choir

Mullingar Area

Mature gentleman sings ballads and country

Navan, Co Meath

Older gentleman with keyboard and acoustic guitar; country and 'singalong'

Finglas, Dublin

Classical guitar

Tallaght, Co Dublin

Singer and accordianist; folk, traditional and ballads

Ardee and Drogheda

Marionettes; full puppet cabaret

Rathfarnham, Dublin

Singer, very good crooner; Sinatra, Dean Martin, etc.

Dublin Area

Fiddle and bodhrain

Co Clare

Young singer and dancer; plays accordian

Gort, Co Clare

Young female singer with guitar; sings professionally

Dublin

Young man with guitar; sings professionally

City Centre, Dublin

Mature female singer; classic hits, sacred and traditional ballads

Mount Merrion, Dublin

Singer with guitar

Waterford City

Singer; Hollywood musicals

Fairview, Dublin

Duo singers and guitar; ballads

Leixlip, Co Kildare

Actess/Singer with guitar

Stonybatter, Dublin

Male singer; sixties numbers

Dublin

Male ballad singer

Dublin city centre

Clarinet and descent recorder

Dun Laoghaire

For more information on Entertainment for the Elderly contact Dermot Kirwan at Friends of the Elderly by phone 01 8731855 or e-mail.

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