Paula C Snyder offers quality Nostalgic Music programs for senior communities & healthcare facilities:
♦ Boomer Communities ♦ Independent Living ♦ Assisted Living ♦ Memory Care ♦ Rehab Centers ♦ Hospitals ♦ Skilled Nursing/Health Centers ♦ Adult Day Care ♦ Hospice ♦ Housebound Patients
- Paula's Vocals with Piano (your facility's) or Guitar (Paula's) **See notes
- Show-Style Performances or Dinner Sets (**Mother & Daughter Duet available for select & limited bookings)
- Private House "concerts" for house-bound individuals and Group Homes
- Single Occasional Dates or Fixed Schedules
- Fair Standard Hourly Rates (**Travel Fees may apply)
- Reliable Advanced Planning
- Accepts Bookings for Mornings, Afternoons, Evenings, Weekends, and Holidays (**Holiday rates will apply)
- Versatile Selections & Instrumentation Flexible For Specific Populations or Room Locations (Central Activity Locations or Room to Room Visits, Focused for Specific Population Engagement)
Please contact Paula with questions about programs for your community/facility or to customize a song list/theme for your special occasion/event.
Paula knows a variety of songs from different eras (1800s to contemporary) and is always adding new material. Here is a small sampling of cover music you might hear at Paula's Nostalgic performances:
1920s |
1930s |
1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | |||||
Always | As Time Goes By |
Autumn Leaves |
C'est Ci Bon |
Baby, I'm Yours |
Always & |
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Blue Skies |
Blue Moon |
Besame Mucho (English/Spanish) |
Dream Lover |
Downtown | Bad Bad Leroy Brown |
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Button Up |
Dream a Little Dream of Me |
Fly Me to |
Hot Diggety Dog Ziggety Boom |
Feelin' |
Country Roads (Take Me Home) | |||||
Can't Help |
Let's Call |
La Vie En Rose |
How Much is |
Hey Jude |
Joy To The |
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Carolina |
Lullaby of Broadway |
Pennsylvania Polka |
Kisses Sweeter |
Leavin' On a Jet Plane |
New York New York |
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It Had to Be You |
My Funny |
Sentimental |
On The Street |
Me & Bobby McGee |
Top of |
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Let's Do It | Night and Day |
Time |
Rock Around |
My Guy | Sing | |||||
Makin Whoopie | Over the Rainbow |
Twilight Time |
Sway | Strangers in the Night |
You Are So Beautiful |
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Puttin On the Ritz |
The Way You Look Tonight |
Tzena Tzena |
That's Amore |
Under the Boardwalk |
You Light Up |
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Someone to Watch Over Me |
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby |
When You Wish Upon a Star |
What Will Be |
What a Wonderful World |
You've Got |
Paula's repertoire includes songs from various movies & Broadway musicals like these:
Allegro | Annie | Annie Get Your Gun | Brigadoon | Bye Bye Birdie | Camelot | Carousel | Fiddler on the Roof | Guys and Dolls | Hello Dolly! | My Fair Lady | Music Man | Oklahoma | Phantom of the Opera | Showboat | South Pacific | State Fair | The King and I | The Scarlet Pimpernel | The Sound of Music | West Side Story |
Consider some unique 1 hour (or extended) Nostalgic Theme Sets arranged by Paula:
- "America, Going Places": A trip around the USA from "Moonlight in Vermont" to "California, Here I Come" and back again via "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (Nothing Could be Finer than to be in Carolina......)
- "Exceptional Women In Music": A presentation about 5 extraordinary women performers, their impact in music, and general community. Features Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, and Carole King...
- "Put On A Happy Face": Music that makes you "Smile", "Sing A Song", until "Happy Days are Here Again", and you're "Feeling Groovy"!
- "Famous Songs by Famous Crooners": A musical journey of music sung by Rudy Vallee to the Rat Pack.
- "Around the World in 80 Minutes": Let's travel to some different countries and sing songs about them and with them. Right now, the tour starts in Ireland, with stops in England, France, Austria, Holland, Israel, and Mexico. Some of the songs are presented in the language of the country... (Time can be adjusted from 60 to 90 minutes).
- "As Time Goes By" (Set One - From Moments to Infinity): A variety of songs that mention increments of time - from "It Only Takes A Moment" (Hello, Dolly) to the "Twelfth of Never" (as sung by Johnny Mathis)..."As Time Goes By"
- "As Time Goes By" (Set Two - Through the Seasons): Songs for each season of the year with some surprises along the way! Winter Scenes: like "Somewhere My Love" (aka Lara's Them from "Dr Zhivago"), The First Bird of Spring: "Red Red Robin", Sultry Summers: "Summertime" (from Porgy & Bess), and"Autumn Leaves" to represent the Fall...
- Rodgers & Hammerstein Chronology (Set One - Musicals through the 1940s): Starting with a prelude from each writer before they became a team, we will travel with short medleys through their musicals of the 1940s (many became movies in the 1950s). The set includes songs from "Oklahoma", "Allegro", "Carousel", "State Fair", and "South Pacific"
- "Celebrating Male Vocalists Through the Decades": A presentation about various male vocalists in chronological order from when each started their performing careers - Includes songs from Eddie Cantor, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Gene Austin, Elvis, The Beatles, and others...
- "Broadway & Show Tune Collections": Songs from individual musicals, or groupings of musicals in collections - For instance - songs from musicals that took place in or around England or songs from musicals that included military personnnel...
- "Lights, Camera, Action": Songs from movies and TV shows