I wanted to share with you the experience from the concert we had on Tjoelling sykehjem January 9th.
We wanted to get the focus on health care and the older generation. We know that many people on the nursing home does not have family members visiting them, and even though some of them do, they might enjoy some extra company.
The program was: Concert by Marthe Riis Gjertsen, followed by coffee and cakes.
I had organized most of it from New York, and I have such great people in my life that wanted to be a part of this. My best friend, that I know of since I was in kindergarten, which also is an amazing singer so she volunteered to sing. She prepared songs a few weeks in advanced. My mom and I had spent the last days baking cakes and making waffles that we were supposed to have after the concert.
It turned out to be such a success. I think we was as happy as the patients. In total we had two concerts on different departments. In many cases Marthe had to stop sing because a few of the ladies also would like to sing and we happily let them do so! It turned out we had to add a few more songs to the program as well as a few more artists! It was so great. The greatest was probably when one of the ladies started to sing Kjaere Gud ( Dear God) and basically everybody was singing. It was such an amazing vibe there. We laughed and smiled so much that night all of us.