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EDINA, Minn. (KMSP) -The music coming out of the speakers is from a different era — the good old days, according to 83-year-old Whitey Westlund. If only his 82-year-old wife Audrey could remember. Read more here…

The presenters are Laura Beer, Ph.D., MT-BC, ACMT, director of the music therapy program at Marylhurst University; Liska McNally, MT-BC, clinical supervisor, Marylhurst University; Jessica Western, MT-BC, vice president, Oregon Association for Music Therapy; and Jodi Winnwalker, LCSW, MT-BC, CEO, Earthtones Music Therapy Services. McNally and Western also teach music therapy at Marylhurst. Read more here…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida State University professor is the first-ever winner of a new international award designed to recognize the top researchers in the field of music therapy. Read more here…

Meditation is no longer a passive practice or one in which we remove ourselves from the world. Meditation is the catalyst for transformation, self-knowledge and taking action in the world from an aligned place of love rather than a limiting place of fear-doing things from our heart rather than what everyone else wants us to do or what we think we should be doing. Read more here…

The film follows Music and Memory founder Dan Cohen as he fights against “a broken health care system” to prove music’s ability to fight memory loss and “restore a deep sense of self.” Music and Memory is a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 to provide elderly persons with music to improve their quality of life and “to make therapeutic music a standard part of elder care.” Read more here…

Everything you always suspected about music is true. Scientists can point to the parts of the brain that music stimulates, where our deepest memories and feelings reside. The phenomenon even stretches back to before birth, when the sound of a heartbeat establishes our sensory proclivity toward music. Read more here…

A new documentary coming to theatres around the US over the next few months explores Dan Cohen’s Music and Memory program and its emotional and therapeutic impacts on the lives of people with dementia and Alzheimer’s. “Alive Inside is a joyous cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity,” says the producer’s website. Read more here…

A presentation on music therapy was held in the Inner Circle of the library on Saturday. Local music therapist, Michele Folster explained what music therapy is, its history, and who it can help, but she says you have to experience it to understand it. Read more here…

HERKIMER — The Herkimer ARC will host Autism Movement Therapy classes on Wednesdays for teens ages 13 and older and adults at the agency’s exercise and dance studio at the Gail W. Brown Center, 411 Folts St. in Herkimer.  Read more here…

Operation Song, professional songwriters/singers from Nashville who have written award winning songs for the stars and who dedicate their time to music therapy with returning soldiers and veterans, was brought to the area by Heartland Therapeutic Programs, a North Georgia nonprofit, July 11-13. Read more here…