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Music has healing properties – whether it’s quiet jazz or cacophonous rock anthem, a song can help long-repressed feelings to emerge, said Lisa Summer, who is one of over 5,000 board-certified music therapists in the U.S., and director of the music therapy program at Anna Marie College in Paxton. Read more here…

There is more to music than we hear. Don’t you always believe that music might be how your feelings sound out loud? Into the void there begins to form a third space which is tenuous and invisible to others but exists only between you and the music even if you are a music lover or not. Audio therapy is one of the best modes of letting go of your blues. There is scientific research to back up the fact about the healing properties of music. It is a proven fact that music indeed lowers your stress levels to a great extent. Read more here…

The Fourth Annual Finn Fest will be held on Sunday, May 18 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Norwood Inn in Avon-by-the-Sea to honor Joe Finn, a beloved father who lost his battle to a glioblastoma brain tumor in the summer of 2008. Proceeds from the event benefit the Joe Finn Music Therapy Program at the Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch. Read more here…

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Read more here…

WACO (March 27, 2014) The Baylor Scott & White Cancer Center is seeking funding for a music therapy program, but needs the public’s support to get it. Read more here…

DELIGHTED pupils said a big ‘thank you for the music’ to a firm of solicitors who helped to save a much-needed part of their school life. When they heard that Rosebank School no longer had the funding to provide music therapy, the team at Accident Advice Solicitors, in London Road, raised £20,000 to make sure it would continue.  Read more here…

Yesterday, I posted a story about things former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart had been doing, involving the brain. It’s revolutionary. It got me thinking about how I use music when I’m feeling off. Read more here…

If you ever wondered whether music could help protect your health, consider the life of Maria von Trapp — “Louisa” in The Sound of Music. The last of the singing von Trapp children, she passed away this year at 99, more than three-quarters of a century after fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria. Read more here…

MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Music is more than just entertainment for a group of students at Georgia College in Milledgeville. While taking classes in the music therapy program at the school, they’re using their voice, instruments, and songs to help people in their community. “There are a lot of different definitions of music therapy. I think the easiest way to think of it as being able to use music as a tool to help people with a wide variety of things,” Katie Whipple, an lecturer in the GC music therapy department said. Read more here…

KATHMANDU, April 5 (Xinhua) — Bono, the lead singer of U2, a popular Irish rock band, once said that “music can change the world because it can change people.” This is what a group of music therapists here are trying to do with autistic children in Nepal.”Music therapy can be beneficial to children with autism. The greatest challenge is to build trust in the relationship between the therapist and the child,” Kendra Gandharba, a clinical music therapist told Xinhua Wednesday as Nepal joined the world in observing Autism Awareness Day.  Read more here…