Sundance and Seniors

So Utah has been flooded with Hollywood stars this week with the oh so famous Sundance Film Festival. Eric and I have never been to the festival so when Salt Lake County Aging Services (my employer) was given free tickets to a film I jumped at the chance to go. Now when most people think of going to the Sundance Film Festival they have visions of hopnobing with the rich and famous. However, our Sundance experience was not quite what one would expect. Since the tickets were given to Aging Services that means that the majority of them went to the Senior Centers (which was quite fitting because the film was called Young @ Heart) so that means we saw a Sundance film with 50 some odd 60-80 year olds. The film was about the Young at Heart Chorus which is a group of seniors with the average age being about 80 that sing rock, punk, and R&B music and tour all over the world. The film was absolutely wonderful, I laughed and cried through the whole thing and if you get a chance you must see it. The best part of the whole thing was that as we walked out of the movie theatre the majority of the audience climbed back into the senior center buss to go home.

Check out these clips from the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBeFL3qI-n8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u6k-99qcCE&feature=related