Pearlies at the Senior Center

The Pearl Strings played their Christmas Program yesterday at the South Carroll Senior Center. One of the band members is just about old enough to be a full-fledged member there. (Hint: you have to be 60 years old.)

We met early and went through all our songs in the conference room. Then we were hungry so we purloined some of the day old turnovers set out as bingo prizes. (Will play for food.)

We had a rollicking good time, despite a bit of a rocky start. We really love the songs we're doing this year. And we've come to a place where we're really much more comfortable with being on stage. This was the band laughing at me when I realized I couldn't play Blue Grass White Snow without my picks on. 

Here is our program: 

Santa Set   

  Up on the Housetop,

  Santa Claus is Coming to Town        

  When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter

Blue Grass, White Snow           

Winter Wonderland      

Christmas Dinner           

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Instrumental

The Bell that Wouldn’t Jingle 

All I want for Christmas is You          

O Beautiful Star of Bethlehem

The Christmas Waltz     

Medley of Christmas Songs 

   Here we Come a-Caroling

   Joy to the World

   Deck the Halls 

   Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Silent Night/Peace Peace  

Afterwards we went over to Panera and talked about how wonderful we are. Okay, really we wrote out a list on a napkin of songs we want to do next year.

It reminds me of a line in a Nitty Gritty Dirt band song, "It's great to be a part of something so good that lasted so long." We've got a long way to go towards hitting their 20 years together, but nevertheless, it has been great to be a Pearlie!