The Bordeaux Digest July 2018 Newsletter A Publication of FiftyForward Bordeaux 3315 John Mallette Drive Nashville, TN 37218 Office: (615) 248 -2272 Fax: (615) 248-7607 w w w . F i f t y F o rw a r d . o r g
August Highlights
August 6—Sports 4 All
August 8 — Nutrition w/ TSU
August 8— Living At Home
August 10—BINGO
August 13—Grocery Shopping
August 15—BINGO
August 22—Fitness w/Jen
August 27—Music for Seniors
August 28—Spade Tournament
July Birthdays Maranda Tibbs/July 1st Hayles Collier/July 8th John Woodson/July 14th Susie Major/July 15th Joyce Adams/July 16th Linda Cloyd/July 23rd
OUR MISSION FiftyForward supports, champions and enhances life for those 50 and older. We are happy to provide FREE Wi-Fi here at the center. Look for the FiftyForward Guest Network and type in 50Forward as the
National Museum of African American Music Present “Spoons” at FiftyForward Bordeaux on June 1st The historical origins of the spoon can be traced from Africa to Europe to the Middle East. “Playing the Spoons” is one of the oldest forms of creating music. Prehistoric rock drawings depict dancing figures with curved blades, like spoons, in their hands. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all played some form of spoons. The tradition of playing spoons is thought to have begun with “playing the bones”, a technique in which music was created when two rib bones from a sheep or other animal were struck together. In America, spoons were played extensively during the late 1800’s especially in the area of Memphis, TN; Louisville, KY; Ohio, and the Mississippi River Valleys. In these areas, spoons were widely used as musical instruments because they were inexpensive, household items that could be easily obtained by people who had little money and lived in oppression. During the 1890’s through the Great Depression(1923-1933), the playing of spoons mainly occurred with “Jug” bands, these bands made use of everyday objects like washboards, jugs, wash tubs and spoons to make music. In America Blues music, spoons were often called “bones”, “clappers” or clackers.” Spoons for playing could be wood or metal, but blues musicians generally used metal.
We are brought up to be generous and considerate. We give to our jobs, to our romantic partners, to our friends, parents and children. We give to strangers who may be less fortunate and to social and political causes. What do we have left after all our giving? Have we remembered to keep something for ourselves?