"KARAOKE"

KARAOKE is a Japanese word that means "Empty Orchestra". We play music from a list of songs that is controlled by the computer. The computer plays the music to a particular song and simultaneously displays the words to the song on TV screens around the room at the senior center. The computer changes the color of the words at the appropriate time in sync with the music for the person(s) at the microphone to sing them. The pictures below are from the first session on February 5, 2002. Note that there are many songs that everybody in the room sings at the same time. It is great fun.

The "Cecil-Red-Bobs"	The "Senior Boppers"	The "Oh Susanna" Quintet
Cecil Beatty, Bob Wargo, and John "Red" Scott	"Sis" Wargo, Claudia Wilson, Shirley Scott, and Gloria McCool	Betty Boonie, Missouri Seager, Ruth Glenny, Helen Getz, and Bonnie Brown.