Newsletter
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Ready, Set, Play!
As the warmer weather approaches, viruses decrescendo, and music crescendos! Concerts in Care is performing more and more concerts for an increasing number of seniors’ facilities and groups across the province. Covid is not gone, but masks and handwashing and just plain common sense are…
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Music and Munchies
From the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging, here are some amazing recipes for older adults (PDF download). The Lentil Brownies sound very interesting! Concerts in Care is happy to provide music for your kitchen time! Listen to Domenic Mancuso and his quartet, with music from…
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Avalon Trio Live & Interactive from Ottawa
On Wednesday, December 21 at 2:30 pm, click here to join us for our live, interactive Zoom concert, featuring the Avalon Trio from Ottawa – Gertrude Letourneau, flute and voice, Garry Elliott, guitar, and Guy Edrington, horn. Sing along, clap your hands, and tap your…
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Free Christmas Video Concert
For the Christmas Season, we have a wonderful new FREE Virtual Concert featuring baritone Russell Braun and pianist Carolyn Maule in a beautiful program that includes everything from Bach and Wolf to Amy Sky, Polar Express, and the Christmas Song. Watch for our email with…
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How Can You Help Connect Seniors And Music?
During the past 10 years, and especially the last 3 years, Concerts in Care Ontario has witnessed and felt the difference music makes for our aging and isolated population. Our Concerts in Care musicians are special – they are the best musicians around, and they…
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Seniors – Tell Us What You Think!
We are looking for another 8 or 9 seniors to have a conversation with our Artistic Advisor, Andrew, and our Executive Director, Debra, about what music you want to hear, what you are curious about, what you don’t want to hear, and any other ideas…
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Reaching Seniors Who Have Lost Their Homes
Concerts in Care Ontario is excited to announce a new working partnership with Homes First. In January we will present a concert to celebrate the start of a partnership between Concerts in Care Ontario and Homes First. The two organizations have come together to provide concert-hall…
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Congratulations to Musical Doctors Black and Ascenzo
Congratulations and felicitations to Dr. SarahRose Black and Dr. Andrew Ascenzo. Our Executive Director was in the University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall for her own son’s covid-delayed graduation, when she recognized two familiar faces in their blazing scarlet doctoral robes, receiving their hard-earned Doctorates in…
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Research: How Social Isolation Impacts Older Adults
From our friends at McMaster University comes this poignant article about Social Isolation and Seniors. Music is such an effective treatment for isolation. It travels through time and space and bridges so many gaps in language, culture, and sheer physical distance. Concerts in Care fills…
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Happy Holidays From Concerts In Care
Concerts in Care Ontario is so grateful to everyone who makes our concerts for seniors possible. On behalf of seniors in long-term and memory care, retirement and assisted living, and Seniors’ Active Living Centre members, THANK YOU for all you do! Musicians – Sharing your…





