Well  done   Richard

Thank you!!

Thanks - my friend on the keyboard has his mother (and aunty?) living there, so there was a reason for this performance ...

Thanks - we must have been OK as they (informally) invited us back!

Yes, we did some originals and a few covers which they could sing along to - they seemed to like Sweet Caroline and a couple of the other upbeat songs we did in the covers - but we only played for around an hour ...

And Happy New Year to all!!

Cheers

Richard     

A group of us used to perform every month at different Rest Homes for quite a few years up until covid hit.  We used to do all the old songs they knew and could sing along too.  They thoroughly enjoyed it, though we never used amps as quite a few folks wore hearing aids and the amplifiers hurt their ears with hearing aids, so we decided early on not to use them.     

Jandle wrote:

neophytte, that was a brilliant entry, really enjoyed listening and watching this one.  The song really suited you vocally and the harmonica and auto harp are a great addition to the guitar.  I agree, it has a folky feel to it.  Thumbs up from me

Thanks, also did this song, which my friend wrote, and performed it at local folks home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECrgWs8QkKc

Cheers

Richard

I like what your doing there Richard with your friend  getting out there and giving folk who have been slowed down a chance to enjoy some music.     

Sounds great    Very nice of you guys to perform for the group assembled there.  I am sure it was wonderful for them. 
Happy holidays to you and your family. 
Jim     

neophytte, that was a brilliant entry, really enjoyed listening and watching this one.  The song really suited you vocally and the harmonica and auto harp are a great addition to the guitar.  I agree, it has a folky feel to it.  Thumbs up from me

Thanks, also did this song, which my friend wrote, and performed it at local folks home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECrgWs8QkKc

Cheers

Richard     

Jim thank you for putting up a real good Christmas song. Merry Christmas peace and love to you all who read this. I will attach a video with some our local school kids  having a bit of fun with music on a sunny day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHyMA9XFAIA

Merry Christmas to you too Peatle and thanks for the good wishes and word from you for Christmas and the New Year.  Those kids were great, I love to see the young ones out there getting into music.  Thanks for sharing that.     

Here's a Christmas song  I wrote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec5VbYGUYZI

Wow, wow, wow!!! Love this TIGLJK!  That one is a keeper to add to anyone's list for Christmas.  You have done yourself proud      

good to see 2 songs already,ive been knocking out xmas songs this week too.but have put a couple of other new ones on soundcloud
so maybe i wont put a xmas song there.
but best of luck,look forward to hearing more xmas songs from you guys.

easybeat, pop the link on here for us for your Christmas songs      

Richard
that reads really well,you painted a picture.
off to listen.
good to see some original songs pop up on chordie today.

Thanks!! Hope you got to the video too!

Thanks also!

Cheers

Richard     

I think a song that gets overlooked as a Xmas song is Food for thought by UB40 just have a good listen to the lyrics ,we've just added it to our set for next weekend,I reckon it will go over a lot of peoples heads.

Good one Grah another popular reggae song that goes over many people's heads is Bob Marley " No Woman No Cry" as many misinterpret the lyric.  The song "No Woman, No Cry" by Bob Marley was about him growing up in the slum, watching the struggles that a poor woman goes through, and assuring her that everything will be alright The title means "Woman, don't cry" Marley used the lyrics to reminisce about his life in the housing project in Trenchtown the birthplace of reggae music  and his relationship with woman. A sort of a even though things are bad we are going to be alright in this poor ghetto. When many Jamaicans want to say don't cry they say no cry. In the song there is also mention of observing  hypocrites in the Government yard.
The credited writers of this song are the late Bob Marley (1945-1981) as well as a semi-regular collaborator and very close friend of his named Vincent “Tartar” Ford (1940-2008). As the story goes Tartar may have had little, if anything, to do with the actual composition of “No Woman No Cry”. However, Bob still gave him credit in the name of making sure his buddy received royalty checks from the song into the future.
In fact Vincent Ford was a cripple who maintained a soup kitchen in Trench Town. And it was he who fed Marley in his youth when Bob didn’t have anything to eat. This was way before Marley’s rise to stardom. So it can be said that the second verse of this song was largely inspired by Marley’s relationship with Tartar. But even beyond that, Bob had a tendency to attribute songwriter credit to friends and family,.

The royalty payments that Ford got from the song enabled him to keep on running his soup kitchen until his death in 2008.