Musicians put on a show outside Lincoln assisted-living center
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Residents at Lexington Assisted Living Center look on as musicians Jennifer Van Dyke (left) and Rachel Mulcahy perform outside their windows Wednesday.
Jen Mathews (left) talks through a window to resident Patty Nieveen at Lexington Assisted Living Center on Wednesday.
Rachel Mulcahy leads a performance for residents of the Lexington Assisted Living Center on Wednesday, March 25.
Keeping social distance, Karen Church (center) listens as friends and family perform music at the Lexington Assisted Living Center on Wednesday.
Jacqueline Higgins looks on from a balcony as Jen Mathews (left) holds a sign to cheer up the residents of Lexington Assisted Living Center on Wednesday.
Musician Mike Semrad performs at The Legacy Retirement Community on Wednesday.
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Residents of the Lexington Assisted Living Center watched and listened from their apartments and the balconies overlooking the center’s courtyard Wednesday afternoon as the song rang out from a half-dozen singers and the guitar of Rachel Mulcahy, whose stage name is Miss Katie Rae.
This land is your land
This land is my land …
About a half-hour later, across 56th Street at The Legacy, musician Mike Semrad and guitarist Mike McCracken rocked through Buddy Holly’s “Oh, Boy” in the parking lot, amplified by a portable sound system.
The singing outside the neighboring centers coincidentally overlapped. The concerts were part of a dramatic change in their operations and programming created by the coronavirus pandemic.
It’s been nearly three weeks since Nebraska’s first coronavirus patient, and since then, nursing homes, assisted-living and senior living centers with restricted access have been looking for ways to keep residents calm and occupied. Music is a perfect vehicle for both, said Legacy Communities CEO Greg Joyce.
“We have live music all the time,” Joyce said. “But we’ve never done anything like this before. We’ve never done it where we’re trying to keep people comfy in their rooms and 6 feet apart.”