[photo credit; Pasadena Senior Center]
The Great American Swing Band rolls into 85 E. Holly St. on Monday, May 25, from 2 to 4 p.m. for a vintage USO-style concert and dance built around the popular tunes of the 1940s and ’50s — the standards your grandparents knew by heart. Expect red, white, and blue from floor to ceiling, light snacks, room to cut a rug, and the kind of brass section that makes the back of your neck behave.
It’s free, thanks to the Pipia/Ma Welcome Home Fund, which supports the self-care and well-being of veterans and military members year-round. Bring a neighbor, bring a dance partner, bring the cousin who claims they can’t swing dance — they can. Register ahead online or at the Welcome Desk; the room fills up the way these rooms always do.
A quick word about the host: the Pasadena Senior Center is a donor-supported nonprofit that takes no local, state, or federal funding — and still manages to provide more services to older adults than any other organization in the San Gabriel Valley. With 10,000 Americans per day aging into older adulthood, that work matters more, not less.
The center keeps the lights on Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon, with social interaction, fitness programs, education, basic support and needs services, volunteerism, and community activism on the menu. Monday’s concert is one afternoon in a much longer story.
Honor the day, hear the horns, and let someone twirl you under a paper streamer.
Pasadena Senior Center, 85 E. Holly St., Pasadena. Monday, May 25, 2–4 p.m. Free; advance registration encouraged. pasadenaseniorcenter.org / 626-795-4331
