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Limerick centenarian gave up the cigarettes for love and it paid off
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MARTIN Enright’s family in Canada couldn’t be here for his 100th birthday due to Covid but residents and staff in Beechwood Nursing Home ensured it was still a day to remember.
They celebrated with a special cake, a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday and Martin FaceTimed his sons and daughters abroad. Reporters always ask centenarians what is the secret to their long life and in Martin’s case it is love.
He was a smoker until he met the love of his life – Audrey Smith.
The saxophonist with New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra breathed a sigh of relief along with millions of others when President Joe Biden took office Jan. 20, but he expects even more of an outpouring when the impact of COVID-19 finally begins to wane. “I think the sigh will blossom into an expressive cry,” Nash said with a laugh in an interview Wednesday with the Times Colonist. If the pandemic hadn’t come crashing down on his plans, Nash, 60, would have been busy during the past year both on his own as a bandleader and with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. With gatherings cancelled, however, his performance schedule was whittled down to almost nothing over the summer, save for a few outdoor gigs and a late September concert recording that will be presented Tuesday by the Victoria Jazz Society.