At least once a week, and usually more often than that, Eugene chorister Amy Adams sings for a special audience. Some listen from sofas. Others recline in wheelchairs. A few dance up and down the hallway, lost in their own worlds. Some aren’t quite sure where they are.

“This is a very particular kind of floor show,” she says. “It requires a lot of energy.”

Adams is one of several local musicians in The Shedd Institute for the Arts’ Unforgettable program, which brings singalong music to memory care facilities around town. She has been performing since 2015, with a COVID break in 2020-21, playing piano and belting out everything from American Songbook standards and classic Johnny Cash to slightly more-contemporary numbers. “Contemporary” here means John Denver, Olivia Newton-John and Linda

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