It's all about musical entertainment for senior citizens wherever they are.
Senior citizen entertainment is a specialty.
Here are tips, information, and useful links.
These folks are usually on the ball. They live in a community of similar folks who have clubs and events and are very much an active bunch. Mostly these are 55 yrs. old and older residences where residents usually have a nest egg and couldn't afford to be there on social security retirement money alone.
Here as an entertainer you have more room to wind them up.
They usually want to dance and have requests and sometimes have alcohol served at musical entertainment events. Watch out for that cane!
These folks also have clubs/groups that will hire you separately from the facility management.
This is almost the same as playing a non-institutional private party.
You will need a larger repertoire of oldies with a group like this as they are more demanding than a nursing home group.
As I have mentioned elsewhere the songs that they knew during the romance years are going to be the favorites but newer senior friendly requests will come up as well.
This situation is more like playing a gig at a hotel or at a resort than in an elderly facility.
You may find that you prefer this sort of work more than the others and try to market yourself toward it more.
I don't focus on a specific senior age or abilities group but take jobs based on different criteria such as $$$$$.
I also consider the tedium of the miles that I have to drive and how well I have been treated there in the past.
These folks are usually on the ball. They live in a community of similar folks who have clubs and events and are very much an active bunch. Mostly these are 55 yrs. old and older residences where residents usually have a