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I listen in wide-eyed wonder when my father tells the stories of what it was really like to work in the rhythm and blues business in a 1960s South. Holes were bore in the floorboard of their car, so bathroom breaks in segregated pit stops or on the sides of Alabama roads could be avoided. Read more here…

GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO—Several years ago, fed up with the violence engulfing their region, a youth group in Goma set out to hold a music festival for peace. The first attempt in 2013 was canceled as mortars rained down on the city. But in 2014, 25,000 people came to Goma to hear their favorite Congolese artists play. Read more here…

Later this week, one organization at Sam Houston State University is devoting time to explaining how music can have profound impacts on people’s lives. The SHSU chapter of the national music therapy organization Mu Tau Omega is hosting Music Therapy Awareness weekend to discuss the issues and benefits of music therapy. Read more here…

Lullabies are used to calm overexcited infants, and now a new therapy for Heritage Park residents with Alzheimer’s uses music therapy to do the same thing. Read more here…

ROCKFORD (WREX) – When faced with a life altering disease such as cancer, people tend to shut down and become depressed. But some patients at SwedishAmerican are benefiting from musical healing. Read more here…

EVANSVILLE, IND. – Strengthening speaking voices affected by Parkinson’s stroke, or other neurological disorders (or simple aging) is the mission of SongShine Foundation, a nonprofit public charity that sponsors music-based voice therapy programs using classical singing exercises, speech and respiratory therapy methods, rhythmic movement, and group singing to enhance speech. Read more here…

ATLANTA — At A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab at Wesley Woods, in Rosemary Bauer’s room, it’s time for therapy. “Is it okay if I put the headphones on?” music therapist John Abel asks the 99-year-old woman. Read more here…

Music can be thought of as a holistic approach to healing—a familiar song can stir up memories of a once forgotten past, transporting you to that reminiscent place and time. Simple melodies elicit feelings of joy and laughter or sometimes pain and sorrow. Read more here…

In the arts, we are all learners,” said Lisa Wong, pediatrician, musician and author of “Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine,” addressing the symbiotic relationship between medicine and the arts in a lecture Wednesday in Pembroke Hall. Read more here…

ELLWOOD CITY — Ellwood City Hospital’s Behavioral Health Unit is offering Music for Healing/Music for Life, a community education program on Feb. 27 that includes lunch. The informative program by Gina Bagnoli, music/activity director for the Behavioral Health Unit, will last about an hour. Read more here…