Hi all,

Hammer, might know this he has been to the UK. In homes for the elderly we don’t pay for musicians to come in and entertain the residents, the homes are run by the local authority and simply don’t have the money to pay, maybe at Christmas the will club up together to pay for entertainment. Most homes will have an old two manual that someone has donated and someone will come in a play it for free, so we don’t have KB players going around making a living off the homes, yours are perhaps mainly private and you are paid out of the cost people pay, I don’t know?
A friend of mine is a nurse in a home, a private one, he got a guy to come in a play guitar and sing one night last week, the guy worked his nuts off for about 2 hours in front of 50 residents, the audience applauded to every song and appeared to really enjoy themselves. After the entertainer had got and packed up this friend of mine was taking 3 residents in the lift to go to bed, he said to them all “ well , did you like the chap with the guitar ” they all replied “what chap, what guitar ”.

This is true, its not a joke.