Young @ Heart

Special Screening: Fundraiser for Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival

March 22, 2010

(United Kingdom)
Rated PG
107 minutes

6:30 pm - live entertainment by Mark “Bird” Stafford and Darren Poole with film to follow

A hit among audiences and critics at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and winner of an audience award at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival, Young @ Heart is a humorous and inspiring documentary that challenges the stereotypes of old age in a world obsessed with eternal youth.

For over twenty-five years, the Young @ Heart Chorus has entertained audiences at home and abroad with unique renditions of punk, rock and rhythm-and-blues songs by musicians as varied as Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix and The Clash. Of course, the average age of most rock ‘n’ rollers isn’t eighty years young. As the group prepares for a new show hilariously titled “Alive and Well,” Young @ Heart’s taskmaster and choral director Bob Cilian has a new collection of songs for these lively elders to learn. Far from a novelty act, the group is as much about serious music and supportive community as it is a way to stay active and engaged in a society that often expects seniors to be passive and quiet.

“A crowd-pleaser in the best sense, this alternately hilarious and heartbreaking movie will send you out of the theater with a new lease on life.”– David Ansen, Newsweek

Special Screening: Fundraiser for Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival

Tickets ($15.00) are available at BookLore or at Galaxy Theatre on February 22 and March 8 or by calling the Blues and Jazz Festival Office at 519-941-9041 or 1-888- 792-5837.

Enjoy a 10% discount on food and beverages (excluding alcoholic beverages) at Kelsey's upon presentation of a valid MNM movie ticket/stub or Subscription Pass. Offer valid only on MNM film nights.