To celebrate the Holidays, the G & F musicians recently congregated at a nearby retirement home to entertain the clients with a seasonal song fest. One of the retirees was a guitarist/singer who had attended Thursday night jam sessions with several of us for decades in the basement of a local hardware store, and his specialty was old cowboy songs. He joined our performance and regaled the audience and his fellow musicians with bygone country western classics that we remembered well – thanks to him. The staff and clients joyfully sang along on the familiar Holiday tunes.
With December soon closing the calendar year, the Gainor & Friends musicians are reminded of the generosity of the Broadway Brewery management in inviting us 14 years go this month to perform weekly gigs for the benefit of the nearby University of Missouri Children`s Hospital. We salute and thank the Brewery for its community spirit in supporting our local pediatric medical center.
The brewpub provides the band with a meal during our mid afternoon break-time at each Sunday performance. Since our band`s inception in 1995, we have donated $31K to our nearby Children`s Hospital, and over three-fourths of those moneys have come from the generosity of the brewpub patrons. Thank you all.
From the BRC: Wishing Peace everywhere in our New Year.
