Retirement center anniversary
John Knox Village, a retirement center located in Pompano Beach, celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2007 with a concert by the Ted Knight Orchestra.
The Wednesday afternoon concert featured music of the 40s, with 350 residents in attendance. Click images to enlarge.
The horns were in fine form,
with Jim Adle on tenor and baritone saxes, Ray
Oram on alto and tenor, Tim Walters on trumpet
and Frank
McCallum trombone. Ted sang Louis Jordan's
Choo Choo
Ch'Boogie and Glenn Miller's Moonlight Cocktail,
and
enjoyed playing the facility's baby grand piano.
Forty
residents supplied forty home-made birthday cakes for the occasion.
Everyone sang Happy Birthday to You, the bakers blew out their
candles, and then it was time for a bite while the band took an
intermission. A brief program honored long-time residents, with special
recognition for those who had reached their 100th birthday.
After intermission, staff moved several
rows of chairs so that people could dance. At right, drummer Sy
Pryweller.
The anniversary celebration continued the next day at two other John Knox Village locations. Ray returned on sax, Sy moved to trumpet and another drummer came on board. The musicians met Mikki Phillips, the widow of jazz saxophone legend Flip Phillips, who lived at John Knox. She enjoyed the music so much that she compact discs and concert videos featuring her late husband to the band, a tremendous honor for the musicians.
Ted's band returned to John Knox Village in 2008 to play for a renewal of vows. Many of the couples participating were celebrating 60 or even 65 years of marriage. TV cameras captured the memories for the evening news.