Blues singer Pat Cohen was displaced by Hurricane Katrina, then her house burned down. But she never stopped believing in kindness, and now she's brightening seniors' lives with socially-distanced nursing-home gigs
about the shows, maintaining a positive attitude in the midst of difficulty, and her lifetime of overcoming struggles.
So I go to nursing homes, and I give them a five-star show. I started doing it around town and then I started just driving an hour and a half, trying to make sure I could get to as many as I possibly could. The people at these homes are so thankful, because they don’t get really good music. When I’m playing these shows outside of the nursing homes, you can’t really see the residents. Most of them don’t open their windows, but they can hear me through the window. After the first show I did [at the Citadel in Salisbury], I was ready to leave and somebody said out loud to me, “Thank you so much. Me and my roommate were just sitting here listening to you.”
Right now, the nursing homes are not paying. I mean, I do it so that I’m not stuck in the house. And I do it because people enjoy it. During normal times, they pay me to perform. But some nursing homes, if they talk to me and tell me they don’t have a budget to pay me but they would love to do it, if they talk to me nicely, sometimes I’ll give them a performance. It’s close by, and if it’s something I can do, then I do it. And I wish other musicians would do this.
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