Musicians meet to share passion

For some a love of playing music never dies.

Some of these music lovers can be found at the Golden Hour Senior Center on Monday afternoons during the jam session hour, which starts at 1 p.m.

Over the year, some players come and go and this past session wasn't any different.

Pianist Bill Hoyt said this was the first time in a long time this particular group of players consisting of Lawrance "Jug" Lowell, Randy Stonebraker, Pat Jennings and himself, have played together. All but Hoyt were on the guitar.

They may not have remembered some of the names of the songs they were playing, but they remembered what key it started in and the entire song. There was barely a missed note on those the group was playing for memory.

When the musicians aren't busy playing songs from memory, they are trying to learn new ones. At the start of this particular jam session, the group was trying "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "Tulsa Time."

After giving these songs a try," Stonebraker said, "Let's play something we know how to play."

The group moved on to various songs they liked to play. Jennings often took the lead, which was quickly followed by Hoyt asking in which key he was playing the music. Once everyone knew which key the music was playing in, they joined in. This goes on every Monday at GHSC. The group meets on the stage and is ready for newcomers and those who haven't been there in a while to attend.