"A Concert Series For Seniors" features the " Barbara Purdy Jazz Combo" in exciting weekday afternoon concerts. This popular six-piece combo presents Broadway show tunes, jazz, love ballads, R&B, blues, folk music, and classic pop (Old School), in English, Spanish, and Italian.
Barbara Purdy aims to enable seniors, an underserved population, the opportunity to enjoy instrumental and vocal performing art in its highest form of professionalism. All too often, seniors are denied the privilege of attending live professional concerts because of financial hardships, transportation, and/or physical handicaps. They are the forgotten population. Their lives are often void of the feelings of happiness and enjoyment that a concert can bring. Sometimes they don't even know where to go to find the kind of music that they can relate to and enjoy. Her mission is to take the concerts to the seniors so that they, too, can feel the pleasurable emotions ignited by attending a professional concert - such as the concerts we present.
