Rodney Harwood / Daily Record Billy Maguire, from left, David Parker and Jeff Hill get together and play music at the Meadows Place retirement community.
An appreciative audience
Musicians perform at Meadows Place Assisted Living Facility By RODNEY HARWOOD staff writer The evening started off with Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay.” The acoustic guitar and singular voice was a familiar fit for a song Dylan actually quit smoking to record. But the accordion accompaniment was probably more Dylanesque than anything, in that Dylan has reinvented himself and his 18
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music over the years, changing the words, changing keys, playing the slow ones fast and the fast ones slow too many times to count. Even though the song ended to silence in a room with people sitting at every table, the music was a pleasant change for a demographic of people that had been under literal isolation since the pandemic safety restrictions went into effect in March of
2020. Acoustic duo Jeff Hill and David Parker have been busking at the Rotary Pavilion Friday afternoons from 3 to 5 p.m. during the pandemic. Now they have extended their music to include sessions at Meadows Place Assisted Living Facility in Ellensburg. Local favorite Billy Maguire sits in every now and then, adding a second guitar, voice and harmonica. “My mother was in an extended
