Psycho Nurse - Holiday Events

As much as the now poplular "Red States" would like to believe,
Psycho Nurse was not a Heartless, Child Hating, Liberal, Pagen Left Wing Operation.

They all really had a Big Hearts, espically when it came to helping and being nice to people.After all they were Nurses.

We set up a Hoilday Gig, just about every year. We would spend all day, from early morning to mid evening on Christmas Eve, visiting all the Area Hospitals and Childrens homes. The group include Guitar players and a varrity of other instruments like flute, violin and harmonica players .We would have some classical ballet dancers from the Nutcracker with us to perform.

We would rent costumes, Santa Suites, Elves wear, and other Holiday garb. We brought sacks of presents, like coloring books, dolls and plush toys, these are gifts that Roxie would personally buy. The group distributed them to the kids and sick people. We would get other bands in town to participate with us.

One year we even sang for the Govenor of PA (Casey) who was sick in the hospital.
One year we were even caught in a Hospital fire.

The event was always Media Popluar. It was followed through out the day by all the TV and Radio Stations and Print. We would be on the TV news morning noon and evening. We did live cut a ways for radio all day long. Everyone interviewed the Hospital Staff. It was very well recived all the time.

Roxie started doing this effort in 1983 with Debbie,Michele Tony Alison and a few other musicians from a Original band called "Rudi and the Living Dolls". From 1986 to 1991 it became a Psycho Nurse Staple Event.

What I alwasy though was intresting is. At the end of the day, a whole bunch of rock n roll musicans, some with the persona of being pretty hard core, would be at the St. Jospehs Hospital and they all would be crying. It was alwasy a very touching personal event.

I think, we brought some smiles to people and helped them feel a little better each holiday.

Psycho Nurse and friends were also responsible for several successful benefits that went on in the area. They always organized and participated in Civic events, sometimes performinga PG up version of their material.