Young @ Heart

The Young@Heart Chorus is a group of senior citizens from New England (average age 82, combined age of 2000 years) that have toured the world singing rock and roll songs; warming the hearts of young and old alike and inspiring standing ovations wherever they go. Their songs address issues of aging, life, death, love, loss, and giving.

This clip is a song in a concert for prisoners at a state penitentiary. There wasn’t a dry eye in the Big House. One prisoner attested that this was the best concert he’d ever seen. They put on the concert an hour after they heard that a chorus member that was to debut a new song passed away. Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82mwhSyHbow

Young @ Heart is now a motion picture documentary playing in local theaters. Check out the movie trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjnfoFg7i7g

It touched my heart more deeply than I’ve ever been touched by a documentary. It brought me face to face with life during its last years. Like one of the members said, “No one gets out of here alive, nobody.” Yet you carry on, because that’s what you gotta do.

If life hasn’t brought us to our knees, then aging is designed to do just that. This group of people just keep giving to their audiences although their bodies are failing, their friends are dying, they’re not assured of making it to the next rehearsal. They are overjoyed to have each experience, because it may be their last. There’s nothing left to hang on to except this moment. Life takes on new meaning when one lives it for something greater than oneself; when all that is left is what one has to give . . .. “What comes from the heart, reaches the heart.” (George Davis, minister, musician)

Here’s some more clips:

http://content.foxsearchlight.com/inside/node/2599

http://content.foxsearchlight.com/videos/node/2650

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omIrLgQO9O0