FUN-LOVING care home residents have celebrated World Music Day with singalongs, karaokes, themed parties and concerts.
From cardio drumming to hillbilly-style dances, there were joyful sounds filling the air to entertain residents and visitors alike at Colten Care’s 21 homes across the south.
Fiona Pritchard, Colten Care’s music and arts partner, said: “World Music Day was a great opportunity to celebrate the breadth of musical creativity our residents enjoy.
“There really was a lot of variety. People joined together to say thank-you for the many ways that music brings joy and pleasure to them.”
At Kingfishers in New Milton, Hampshire, there was intergenerational festivity as children from Durlston Court School’s ukulele band came along to perform.
Elsewhere, Colten staff and residents chose a variety of ways to showcase their own musical creativity and knowledge.
There was a music quiz at Whitecliffe House in Blandford, a six-decade jukebox celebration at Avon Cliff in Bournemouth and song and dance-themed coffee mornings at Lymington homes Court Lodge and Linden House.
Woodpeckers in Brockenhurst held a ‘Walking on Sunshine’ music and movement session while Newstone House in Sturminster Newton staged an ‘Abba spectacular’.
At Canford Chase in Poole, residents took the microphone and sang to each other in a garden karaoke.
At fellow Poole home The Aldbury, the focus was on cardio drumming and at Fernhill in Longham there was singing and dancing on the theme of ‘hillbilly blues’.
