100-year-old trombone player keeps passion for music
SOUTH PASADENA — Helen Cargo's pink nails strummed against a table as the rest of the South Pasadena Community Band began to warm up their instruments for their weekly practice.
When she was a kid, there was no Spotify or Pandora to listen to music. Phonographs fit for homes were still fairly new, so if you wanted music, you mostly had to create it.
Cargo, who recently turned 100, said music has always been a part of her.
One of the founding members of the band, Cargo sat by the doorway of City Hall in her royal blue cardigan with an empty coffee canister, greeting each player who entered and swapping them a raffle ticket for the $2 that go into the 50-50 lottery; $1 toward the band and $1 toward the pool of cash the winner would take home.
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