VIDEO: Watch "The Today Show"'s Story On YOUNG@HEART
The below video aired Tuesday morning on NBC, offering performance pieces by the chorus and interviews with YOUNG@HEART's members on location in Northampton, Massachusetts.
For information about other upcoming YOUNG@HEART TV appearances (such as on "The Tonight Show" and "Ellen!") -- plus TV appearances by the cast of STREET KINGS -- click here.
Meet "The Young at Heart Kazoo Band!"
This seniors' group is based in Houston and are actually performing before a screening of YOUNG@HEART in that city - check out their online profile at FoxSearchlight.com.
From their profile:
Our seniors formed their own kazoo band over 5 years ago, “The Hampton Young at Heart Kazoo Band." Our band members’ ages range from 75 to 99 years young. They enjoy performing and contributing back to their community and
city. Last year, the Band debuted their first CD recording. Our Kazoo Band has performed for over 12,000 youngsters and those who are “young at heart” all over the Houston area.
(Pictured: Three of the musical group's members at a party celebrating their CD's release.)
The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway, spent four years together before Liebmann left to the read the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney. Former 60 Minutes reporter George Negus took over the male anchoring role. After four years, Liebmann returned to the Nine Network, hosting Today with Liz Hayes and Tracy Grimshaw. However, in December 2004, 60-year-old Liebmann suffered a mild heart attack prompting him to retire from the stresses of breakfast television.In 2005, Nine News reporter Karl Stefanovic cheap web hosting, took over from Liebmann as co-host. Grimshaw then left Today at the end of 2005 to take over from Ray Martin as host of A Current Affair. While, it had been widely speculated in the Australian press that Seven Network news presenter Chris Bath would co-host Today with Stefanovic from January 2006, the position instead went to former Network Ten news presenter Jessica Rowe.