Specialist Live Music
Retirement & Care Home Entertainment
Bring the joy of live music and nostalgic storytelling to your residents. I specialise in delivering calm, therapeutic, and engaging musical sessions tailored specifically for retirement villages, residential care settings, and dementia support groups across Hampshire and the surrounding areas.
My care home repertoire focuses on memory-evoking classics from the golden eras of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. From the smooth crooning of Frank Sinatra to heartwarming folk ballads, each performance is carefully designed to provide an uplifting background atmosphere, stimulate musical memory, or inspire an interactive sing-along experience.
⚙️ Fully Certified & Care-Compliant Setup
✓Full PAT Compliance: All compact sound and electrical equipment is fully PAT tested annually to meet strict UK care facility safety guidelines.
✓Public Liability Insurance (PLI): Full £10m venue insurance coverage for complete peace of mind (certificates available upon request).
✓Ultra-Compact Footprint & Safety: Minimal gear setups designed to fit comfortably into any lounge or community room without causing trip hazards.
✓Strict Volume Management: Audio levels are constantly monitored and kept at a safe, comfortable conversational volume level appropriate for senior audiences.
📋 Typical Session Schedule & Breakdown
"Please note: Session structures are completely flexible. Whether your facility prefers a single continuous performance or a 2-set block split seamlessly around afternoon tea, I will fully customise my timings to fit your residents' exact routine."
Live Guitar & Vocals
Nostalgic Golden Oldies Repertoire
A heartfelt acoustic or electric guitar and vocal performance featuring the soundtrack of a generation. Below is a selection of the classic songs included in my standard lounge sessions:
The 1940s: Big Band
Ain't That a Kick in the Head — Dean Martin
Wonderful World — Louis Armstrong
The 1950s: Birth of Rock & Roll
Blue Suede Shoes — Elvis Presley / Carl Perkins
Johnny B. Goode — Chuck Berry
Rock Around The Clock — Bill Haley & His Comets
The 1960s: Golden Age of Pop, Soul & Folk
Bring It On Home To Me — Sam Cooke
Can't Help Falling In Love With You — Elvis Presley
Folsom Prison Blues — Johnny Cash
Guitar Man — Bread
I Walk The Line — Johnny Cash
L.O.V.E. — Nat King Cole / Dean Martin
Needles And Pins — The Searchers
Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay — Otis Redding
Somewhere Over The Rainbow — Judy Garland
Sweet Caroline — Neil Diamond
The Bare Neccesities — Jungle Book
When You Walk In The Room — The Searchers
While My Guitar Gently Weeps — The Beatles
With a Little Help From My Friends — The Beatles
The 1970s: Classic Rock, Country & Singer-Songwriters
Desperado — The Eagles
Guitar Man — Bread
Home — Michael Bublé
Hotel California — The Eagles
It's My Own Business — Chuck Berry / Dave Edmunds
Jailhouse Rock — Elvis Presley
Moody Blue — Elvis Presley
Never Gonna Fall In Love Again — Tom Jones
Stuck In The Middle With You — Stealers Wheel
Stuck On You — Lionel Richie
Suspicious Minds — Elvis Presley
Take Me Home, Country Roads — John Denver
The Dance — Garth Brooks
To Make You Feel My Love — Bob Dylan / Garth Brooks / Adele
What's Up — 4 Non Blondes
Young And Beautiful — Elvis Presley