Shows for Senior Commuities
Yes, Top Shelf performs often for seniors -- whether in day centers or in residential settings!
We have a great number of tunes perfect for our senior audiences. We choose music for the expected demographic of the facility ("senior" can mean a lot of things!), drawing from radio music that will be well known to those in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s and up!
We provide a lively experience filled with friendly banter, musical memories and lots of smiles, drawing from popular radio music spanning several decades.
Tracy and Alan both sing; Tracy plays both guitar and keyboard, Alan adds percussion, and Alan also emcees with an outgoing charm and a sprinking of "groaner" jokes.
What Top Shelf brings to seniors is refreshing and different...not the same old songs typically done for seniors (for example you won't hear "You Are My Sunshine"). We bring lively musical memories from popular radio music (rock/pop/country) of the 1950s, '60s, '70s plus a few standards from the Big Band era if the audience includes octogenarians and older. We generally see many folks mouthing words or singing along, tapping feet, smiling, and sometimes dancing. All of that is encouraged!
"Thank you so very much! Our residents are still talking about it this morning. Your kindness is very much appreciated."
-Emily, Mineral Point
Alan and Tracy are both full-time musicians with daytime availability, and willing to travel within 1 hour of Madison.
See the CONTACT page to discuss booking options.
See below for a sampling of artists whose music we cover for senior shows.
Some of the artists we cover for senior shows:
* Patsy Cline * Every Brothers * Elvis Presley * Johnny Cash * Burt Bacharach * Petula Clark * Carole King * Elton John * George Gershwin * Petula Clark * The Beatles * Nat King Cole * Ella Fitzgerald
* The Carpenters
* Frank Sinatra
* Dionne Warwick
* Nancy Sinatra
* Jim Croce
* Dusty Springfield
* The Monkeys * The Young Rascals * James Taylor
* Neil Dimaond
* Dolly Parton
* The Turtles * Joni Mitchell
Plus additional tunes from the Great American Songbook and Big Band Era, depending on age of audience
HOLIDAY MUSIC:
We have a number of holiday tunes and often do themed shows near Christmastime (generally secular tunes such as "Let it Snow," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," etc., but we can also lead carol sings if requested.)
Top Shelf performing for Silver Threads Senior Group, Oregon WI - Dec. 2022
A few of the places in Wisconsin we have performed in the last few years (for a few of these we are "regulars"):
- Waunakee Senior Center
- Verona Senior Center
- Oregon Area Senior Center
- Silver Threads Seniors Club (Oregon, WI)
- Oakwood Village, Tabor Oaks - Memory Care Unit (Madison)
- Fort Atkinson Senior Center
- Middleton Senior Center
- Middleton Glen (Independent Living)
- Arena Manor (Dodgeville)
- Tallgrass Senior Living (Sun Prairie)
- Behring Senior Center (Monroe)
- Monona Senior Center
- Dodgeville Seniors United for Nutrition (meal sites - day centers and residential)
- The Heights at Evansville Manor
- Heritage House of Portage
- DeForest Area Community & Senior Center