‘MUSIC IN HOSPITALS’ BRINGS MUSIC TO RESIDENTS’ EARS

The residents of Bupa’s Ridgeway Lodge Residential Home, Brandreth Avenue, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, will be serenaded by Isla St Clair on Tuesday 15 December at 11.30am. Isla St Clair is known to millions for her numerous television appearances including The Royal Variety Show, The Morecambe and Wise Show, and most notably as co-host with Larry Grayson on the BBC's long running The Generation Game. Isla has won several folk singer awards and will perform a selection of Scottish folk songs for the residents and staff. The concert has been organised by Music in Hospitals (MiH), a leading charity that provides professionally performed live music in health and care settings throughout the UK. It’s ‘Musical Memories in Care Homes’ project offers live music from a variety of performers, styles and instruments to care home residents. Concerts so far have been hugely successful with a variety of resident groups, including people with dementia. The charity’s chief executive, Diana Greenman, says: “All I can say, from the bottom of my heart, is a great big thank you to everyone at Bupa for helping Music in Hospitals bring so much pleasure to those people who need it most of all.”