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PADUCAH, Ky. — The two boys at Harmony Road Music School banged on the drums, shook rain sticks and rattles, and tried to pick out tunes on the piano. If it didn’t resemble a typical music lesson, that’s because it wasn’t. Instructor Madison Whelan’s musical games were meant to help the students develop skills that can be used outside of music, such as impulse control and communication. Read more here…

Every morning at 11:30 they come for a chance to sing along and play a song — maybe bang a bongo or two. At the UC Davis Children’s Hospital, the patients have few moments to enjoy being a kid while they are being poked and prodded as they deal with health issues that are tough even for grownups. So, a musical break between treatments brightens up their day. Read more here…

PADUCAH, Ky. — The two boys at Harmony Road Music School banged on the drums, shook rain sticks and rattles, and tried to pick out tunes on the piano. If it didn’t resemble a typical music lesson, that’s because it wasn’t. Instructor Madison Whelan’s musical games were meant to help the students develop skills that can be used outside of music, such as impulse control and communication. Read more here…

The community showed their support through prayer and song at the Lafayette Strong: Unite. Honor. Heal. event held at the Blackham Coliseum. With hands raised and hearts opened, the community honored those involved in the Grand Theatre shooting. The Lafayette Consolidated Government put the event together in just two days. They reached out to many local musicians and church choirs. Read more here…

A BRITISH study which saw dementia patients undergo music therapy resulted in improvements to their symptoms and wellbeing as well as a reduction in disruptiveness to staff at their care home. MUSIC therapy has long been known to help people with conditions such as dementia, as music appears to be able reach parts of the damaged brain in ways other forms of communication cannot. Read more here…

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Light background music fills the lobby of Northside Hospital-Forsyth. But this isn’t a radio or soundtrack playing. The melody is being provided by live musicians participating in the hospital’s Healing Sounds program and helping patients, families, volunteers and employees live better lives. Read more here…

EDMONTON — Jeremiah Manitopyes, whose native name is Old Man Eagle, is known to most as Drezus, his hip hop moniker. The 32-year-old has been following his musical passion for over 10 years. Now, he has been nominated for four Indigenous Music Awards. Read more here…

Community leaders are pulling together what’s being called a “gathering for healing” Thursday in the wake of last week’s theater shootings. The specifics were still being worked out late Tuesday, but the event — “Lafayette Strong: United. Honor. Heal” — is scheduled to run from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Blackham Coliseum on Johnston Street. Doors open at 6 p.m. Read more here…

The music therapy program at The Children’s Hospital in Westmead gets all sorts of requests for a tune and is yet to knock one back. It’s a policy that often fills the wards with music of all sorts, from traditional nursery rhymes to good old-fashioned hard rock. Registered music therapist Roxanne McLeod she was happy to facilitate whatever music the children requested. Read more here…

Having weathered one of the lower ebbs in love and life this year, the torch song-singing heiress has 2017 in her sights. Calendars are being dotted; diaries, scribbled. As part of an ambitious plan to mark Canada’s sesquicentennial two July 1sts from now, plans are officially afoot for “The Canadian Songbook,” a musical project covering some of the country’s most beloved songs reimagined through new arrangements, featuring nation-wide orchestras from Newfoundland to British Columbia. Read more here…