Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, I'm Paul Vogel-Seng and this is episode number 332.

Ready to rock?

Join the Smithsonian Boomers Rock and Roll chorus.

As part of our Smithsonian Associates, Boomer's Rock and Roll Chorus.

As part of our Smithsonian Associates Art of Living Interview Series

in the Smithsonian Year of Music,

our guest today on the Not Old Better show

is Ernest Johnson. I'll tell you right now this will be a fun show and

subsequent follow-up editions will be very fun too. You'll know why in just a bit

bit. First of all Ernest Johnson, our guest today, is a choral conductor and music educator who has worked with singers and musicians of all ages for more than 40 years.

With that said, dear, not old better audience. for more than 40 years.

With that said, dear nightold better audience, do you sing, do you walk in the shower?

Do you croon along with the Beatles when you're stuck in traffic or have a knockout kitchen version of your favorite

Motown Classic. As a matter of fact we are listening to Smithsonian Music

Library hit Chain Gang Thang by the Chamber Brothers, but you know it's time to find

a bigger stage. If you love rock and roll and you want to sing some of the greatest hits of all time, you're ready to join the Boomer's Rock and Roll chorus, a program geared for people

ages 55 and above who love to sing sing and there's no experience required.

Now it's intergenerational which is what Quo singing really I truly should be in life and not an audition. Let's see if you can get in or not, but let's just get everyone singing together.

Whenever I conducted these events, it was a joy because I saw students and their parents and neighbors

and some church choirs in the area would come in and join.

It was just an amazing experience.

So it's something I totally believe in that and especially

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