YAH Luncheon - June 13 - Glenn Parks, Banjo

It’s been several years since we’ve enjoyed some good old down-home Banjo music by Glenn Parks. The last time he was with us was in April of 2014. Glenn is a Hall of Fame Banjo player who has recently played at the Gene Autry festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He lives in Springfield and performs heavily in this area as well as elsewhere in the US.

To start our program, Grace Averitt played some great introductory piano music. Thank you Grace.

Listen to Grace's piano music HERE.

We also honored our fathers with a few jokes about fathers. Why is it that us dads are always the Jokes? And we enjoyed having a couple come all the way from Japan to join us this month. Ruby and Ken Imamara visit a couple of times a year but this is the first time that Ken joined us for our Young@Heart program.

Glenn Parks is a good banjo player and pretty good singer, far better than I am. He is renowned in the Banjo circles as a Hall of Fame banjo guy. He is also a funny joke kind of guy. We enjoyed his stories, jokes and banjo playing. He played a lot of OLD country music and a few gospel songs. Although many of the songs were unfamiliar to many of us, there were some good numbers where we could sing along.

You can view a few of the YouTube videos and listen to the entire program. Be sure to watch and listen to these.

Glenn’s intro song was “Somebody Stole My Gal”. You can watch the YouTube version that I recorded.

Another good song was “Good Night Irene”. I think many of you remembered this one. Watch it below.

And for my final video, “That Silver Haired Father of Mine”. This one was not familiar to me but was a very good one for us on Father’s Day. Watch it below.

We can also enjoy the entire program with his stories, jokes and music, HERE.

Next month, we will enjoy hearing from Cleopas. Many of you remember Cleopas and his wife who met Jesus on the road to Emmaus following Jesus death on the cross and resurrection. This will be one of the first times that Stephen Hollen will perform his Cleopas. He’s stepping outside his normal historical humorist roles for this one. So, come and see his program. Stephen performs his impersonations all over the country. Be sure to join us to see and hear his rendition of Cleopas’ story. Bring your cameras, so you can take a selfie with Cleopas!