After months of COVID-19 isolation, Virgil and Trish Klein were getting anxious to stretch their legs. We were looking for a way to reconnect with the outside world, explained Virgil.
Enter occupational therapist Erinna Poon and her team at Stanford Health Care. For the past several months, she s been leading Zoom-based classes designed to help cooped up seniors maintain their balance both physically and emotionally. They ve mentioned with COVID that they re stuck at home and have very little interaction, said Poon.
During the session, they ll stretch their minds and bodies together. The class is organized around a Bingo game with exercise and quizzes peppered in between. The Stanford team says the mixed game and exercise class is official known as Bingocize.
Be Good Tanyas
Human Thing
Crow Waltz
Re-Release Date: 10/10/2006
Peter Walenta
| 07/18/2007 (4 out of 5 stars) I missed the live shows when The Be Good Tanyas opened for Blue Rodeo a few years back so I ve never seen them live. Last week I picked up a copy of their latest record, Hello Love . Not being familiar with Frazey Ford s somewhat garbled vocal delivery, I kind of wondered what I d just bought. After repeated listens though, Frazey s voice grows on me and I definitely like their laid back but tightly sprung blue grass/new grass style. They do a nice cover of Neil Young s For the Turnstiles and the hidden track at the end of the record is an interesting bluegrass version of Prince s When Doves Cry that actually gives Prince a run for the money. Now if they d only done a cover of The Beatles Don t Pass Me By , I would have been in blue grass heaven or at least I would have gotten my rockin shoes on! Some of the traditional numbers work and others are so-s