When we heard Diamond Lillian Aubrey sing, (in her deadpan style), Manfred Mann’s “Doo Wah Diddy”, we fell in love, (chin hairs and all).  Turns out that we are not the only ones.  The Young @ Heart Chorus has been up to its charming shenanigans since 1982.   They started in an elderly housing project in Northhampton, MA.  The original group included “elders” that had lived through both wars.  One of the original members—Anna Main, lost her husband in World War I;  she sang with Y@H until she was 100.

Y@H has put together some pretty crazy combinations of talent during the past 28 years of preforming.   Noteworthy collaborations include performing with a group of Latino break-dancers from a local housing project in Main, “Oh No a Condo” with Cambodian folk artists and punk rockers, “Louis Lou I—A Revolting Musical”, (a re-telling of the French Revolution using the songs of Sinatra), and “Flaming Saddles”, a big campy production with the Pioneer Valley Gay Men’s Chorus, to mention only a few. 

Having romped, (clearly they can still romp), all over Europe, Australia, Canada, and the U.S., (with an Asian tour planed for March of this year), they will be available , in their full glory, in NYC this spring, and in L.A. early this December.

This group of performers ranging in age from 73 to 89 is such an inspiration and is the epitome of what AgingButDangerous stands for.  If you haven’t seen their documentary Young @ Heart,  DO NOT MISS IT!  And check out their T-shirts– finding the ZEN in senior citizen.    www.youngatheart.com