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Brighton Cherenzia is just like any other Firefly Music Festival attendee. He likes music, has a laid back attitude, and traveled quite a distance to be here this weekend. However, unlike the majority of people at Firefly, Brighton, a Boston native, is only 9 months old. He is here with his parents, Robin and Brandon, who will be pushing him throughout The Woodlands in a stroller all weekend long. Read more here…

World-class musicians have visited a Bangor University lecturer who is recovering from being struck down with a brain bug in the Far East a year ago. Dr Sophie Williams contracted Japanese encephalitis last June and is currently fighting her way back to health at Ysbyty Gwynedd. Read more here…

From somewhere high above, the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia must be smiling. With a simple play on the name of Garcia’s former band, a two-decades old group of 16 senior musicians call themselves the Grateful Alive Concert Band. Read more here…

Joanna Bereaud rolled her cart down the hospital hallway. A patient was waiting for her treatment — delivered by maraca and drum. Bereaud, a music therapist at Boston Children’s Hospital, carries a guitar on her back and more instruments in her cart: xylophones, an ocean drum, a rain stick, metal chimes, a kid-sized tambourine. Read more here…

Inside a snug, spartan room at the Harold Washington Library Center, Shimon Marcucci had fine-tuned what probably amounted to several albums’ worth of music before I’d ever played a note there. For four years, the middle-aged bureaucrat turned amateur composer had spent his lunch break on the eighth floor of Chicago’s mammoth central library, soprano saxophone in tow. Standing in one of the six first-come, first-served rehearsal rooms—each outfitted with an upright piano and available for an hour at a time to anyone with a library card—Marcucci had been dreaming up and polishing a range of world-jazz fusion material that would eventually become a self-released record. Read more here…

Many parents of ADHD children may still opt for physician’s prescription, combined with traditional psychotherapy (such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). However, child psychologists today are widely recommending music therapy which complements psychotherapy or as a part of a multi-modal ADHD treatment. Music influences mood and reduces restlessness and impulsiveness. Music also soothes anxiety and stress in the body, and children with ADHD often feel anxious and stressed. Read more here…

The music of Mozart and Strauss is able to lower blood lipid concentrations and the heart rate. This is the result of a study of the effect of different musical genres on the cardiovascular system, which Hans-Joachim Trappe und Gabriele Volt of Ruhr University Bochum present in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. Read more here…

Nazareth and Sacred Heart Homes are proud to introduce the SingFit Prime music therapy program in the Louisville area. Read more here…

A fundraiser that includes appetizers and a group mediumship with a psychic will help raise money for the Music Therapy Impact fund. The nonprofit group provides music therapy for patients who receive hospice and palliative care at the end of their life. Read more here…

A fundraiser that includes appetizers and a group mediumship with a psychic will help raise money for the Music Therapy Impact fund. The nonprofit group provides music therapy for patients who receive hospice and palliative care at the end of their life. Read more here…