Music is kid stuff

For about a dozen years, the BRC founder`s vocal group “The G&F Singers” has been performing at the Children’s Hospital every few months usually aligned with calendar holidays like the Fourth of July, Halloween, Christmas, and St. Paddy`s Day. This year, our annual Valentine`s Day gig in the pediatric ward play room was a joyous songfest with patients, siblings, parents, grandparents, and staff. Surgeons` caps sewn by an OR nurse and whimsically adorned with hearts and flowers were gifted to the kids. We are blessed to share our music with these grateful audiences.

            “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”   J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan                                                                    

A quarter century ago, the BRC founder was a regular jam session picker on Sunday afternoons at a bottomland saloon near the Missouri River. He wrote and recorded a tune entitled “The Hitching Post Song'” as a sing-a-long anthem for the musicians and patrons. The jam session was frequented by a older couple from a nearby community who admired the music, fun, and fellowship. Years later, their daughter worked at a hospital with the BRC founder, and she recounted how much her aging dad enjoyed those Sunday afternoons of Bluegrass jamming.

For her father`s 90th birthday party, she invited the BRC founder to surprise her dad at the nursing home with the Hitching Post anthem. The activity room was thronged with family, friends, and well-wishers who videoed the performance and then erupted in festive applause. Music is kid stuff for the young at heart ages 9 to 90.

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