Usually the medication helps me avoid thinking about it, but at some point, I’ll be through with the world of music and ready to ride off into the metaphorical sunset. Unfortunately, most gigs in this business don’t come with a lucrative pension plan, which is why country chart mainstay Martina McBride is developing the Disneyland of retirement homes–The Crescendo.
Why should your lack of independence and need for assisted living mean the end of your music career? Even aged country stars shouldn’t be forced to give up on their creative dreams.
Martina McBride helped unveil plans for a $95 million senior living community south of Nashville, designed to provide a welcoming home for aging members of the music industry.
“Residents can still contribute music, make music, record music and perform music here and that’s very unique,” McBride told PEOPLE on Wednesday at the launch of The Crescendo, a community of 180 independent living condos and a nursing facility that will feature a recording studio and a performance hall.
Certainly I won’t be able to afford the condos (priced between $300,000 to $600,000), but Martina’s got that covered.
McBride says a fund will be available to assist those who need financial help. “It won’t be just the exclusive, top-tier people in the music industry who can afford to live here,” she says. “Everyone that contributed can come. We need to take care of our own.”
I’m not exactly in the country music business, but I’m willing to write more about the industry if it means I have a place to crash in my sunset years. What would a music industry retirement home be without a resident blogger?
Martina McBride Launches Country Retirement Community [People]
Thought “oh, what’s new with Cat Power?” when I saw the picture at the top of this post.
I thought it was Feist.
So, Dan, as the resident blogger, does that mean you’d expect to crash there for free?
I lived in Nashville for 35 years, until 2006, and they’ve been talking about building some sort of hillbilly crooner country shack for at least 20 of those years.
I’m guessing from the condo prices quoted ($300k+++) that MMc is looking at the suburb of Franklin, or at least Williamson County, for her country utopia. They should go further South, to Hickman Co…get more BANG for their dollar…either way, they need to get it built FAST…the Reverend is getting older each day. Wonder if they need a resident music critic….
This is just weird. I think proceeds from her barbie doll should help finance this undertaking: [smedia.vermotion.com] . As others have pointed out, what’s up with McBride’s new “look”? A last ditch attempt at being hip? Pretty soon she’ll turn to putting out an album with Rick Rubin.