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Sacramento – Assemblymember Chris Holden’s Music Therapy bill to provide formal recognition to music therapists has been approved in the state Assembly and now goes to the Senate for consideration. “Music therapy has many benefits for every age from babies to adults,” said Assemblymember Holden. Read more here…

A MUSIC therapy project that helps people cope with mental illnesses in Bradford on Avon has been awarded nearly half a million pounds by the Big Lottery Fund to go towards its new outreach programme. The Soundwell Music Therapy Trust, based at Wiltshire Music Centre, was just one of 12 organisations in the region to be awarded grants which totalled nearly £4m. Read more here…

Smashproof, Seth Haapu, Maisey Rika and Moana & The Tribe join more than 25 of New Zealand’s favourite Māori musicians to perform a series of shows raising money for Auckland’s Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre (RMTC). Four shows titled ‘WAIATA’, meaning ‘song’, will take place in Auckland and each will showcase a collection of Māori artists. Read more here…

The Montreal band Simple Plan is donating $5,000 to the Montreal Children’s Hospital’s music therapy program. The money will be used to purchase new instruments, some of which will be easier to clean and ensure there is no cross-contamination between rooms. Drummer Chuck Comeau says the band is passionate about funding initiatives that promote music. Read more here…

As demonstrations in Baltimore over the weekend to protest the death of Freddie Gray took on a celebratory tone, the entire cast of the Bob Marley musical that is scheduled to open this week in that city threw a free concert there on Saturday afternoon at Penn and North, right in the middle of the demonstrations, and close by the spot where Gray was arrested. he cast of the Kwame Kwei-Armah-produced world premiere musical, Marley, features several Jamaicans, including actor and playwright David Heron, and former Miss Jamaica USA and Miss Jamaica World runner-up, Victoria Harper. Read more here…

When 73-year-old Shirley Livingston was recuperating from a knee replacement at the Cleveland Clinic’s Euclid Hospital in January 2015, a music therapist came to her room and played the flute for 30 minutes each day. Livingston, of Lake County, Ohio, is convinced that the music significantly helped soothe her pain. “There’s no doubt in my mind” that it was the music and not medication, Livingston says, because she refused to take anything stronger than aspirin. Read more here…

Anyone who works out a lot knows that the right music can make exercising easier. But one Boston startup hopes to take that idea a step further, exploring how music can be used in human health and the treatment of diseases. Ketki Karanam and Alexis Kopikis of Boston-based PureTech got the idea to look into music about a year ago after recognizing the potential for the fast-multiplying number of wearable sensors — think FitBit — to be used in conjunction with music-sharing apps such as Spotify and Pandora to gather data on how music affects peoples’ health. Read more here…

Approximately 1 in 70 children in the U.S are born with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It is often said that music has many healing powers, but can music therapy help those with ASD? All signs point to yes. There have been scientific studies that have proven the many benefits music has to our brains. Knowing this, it can be easy to see how those benefits can help with developmental disabilities such as ASD. But how exactly is this done? Emma Sturgis shares in this article how music therapy is helping this condition. Read more here…

It’s a universal prescription for good health — eat well, exercise and get 8 hours of sleep. Now, you can add a daily dose of music to the list. Mercy Health and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra are partnering to promote the relationship between music and wellness through a joint Music & Wellness Program,“Music does make you feel better, and it can make you think better,” said Dr. Stephen Wilson, a pediatrician and internal medicine physician with Mercy Health. Read more here…

There’s a wing of Chris Evert Children’s Hospital Fort Lauderdale that has ukeleles among all the medical paraphernalia. Look around and you’ll find guitars, a piano, harmonicas, and flutes. It’s all part of the hospital’s Music Therapy program, which has been around for the past five years, said Nicole Sant’elia, nurse manager for the hospital’s Pediatric Hematology Oncology Program. Read more here…