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KidLinks hosted its sixth annual “Symphony of Chefs” fine dining event on Monday, February 29th at the Hyatt Regency Dallas. Twenty noted local chefs, including Chef Dean Fearing, prepared a five-course dinner table-side to approximately 200 attendees. The dinner was accompanied by a special performance by the Dallas Electric String Quartet. Read more here…

Music therapy uses music to work with individuals or groups of people with dementia to enhance their quality of life. A person’s ability to engage in music often remains intact far into the advanced stages of dementia. This is because music stimulates the motor center of the brain, which responds directly to auditory rhythmic sounds. This does not require active cognitive processes to work well. Read more here…

The State Board of Higher Education will ask UND administration to reconsider the suspension of its music therapy program in light of budget cuts. UND students Jenna Tullius and Melea Hoeffner addressed the board at a meeting Tuesday and asked them to intervene with the suspension of the program while about 15 music students and supporters stood silently in the back of the room. Read more here…

Fargo, ND (Valley News Live) One of the recent financial victims is UND’s music therapy program, which has been cut and is no longer accepting new majors. For those working in the field, they fear that the move will have a major impact moving forward. Read more here…

“Under the Boardwalk” by The Drifters and “My Girl” by The Temptations. To those beats from his younger days, Kurland, 68, strummed an auto harp with a guitar pick, tapped a hand drum with a mallet or clicked castanets. Read more here…

Beloved children’s entertainer Fred Penner and a cast of musical friends will be taking people down memory lane to benefit the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund on March 11. Read more here…

CEDAR FALLS — Theresa Camilli will present “The Power of a Challenge” at the 10:15 a.m. meeting Friday of the Northeast Area Music Teachers Association at the Hearst Center for the Arts on Seerley Boulevard. Read more here…

This is Music Therapy month, and the Island’s music therapists have been putting on a free lecture series to explain more about how their services help people, both with health concerns and at different stages of life. Read more here…

Andrew Hittler of Webster Groves describes himself as a fan of 70s rock. “I always liked Bob Dylan, Bob Seeger, Cat Stevens, James Taylor.” Read more here…

Cliff Brown knows how it feels to be trapped. For 12 years, he was caught in a cycle of methamphetamine addiction–a far cry from where he is now. “To be brutally honest with you, I work now and I used to steal. I used to lie all the time and do whatever it took to get high. I work now, and I pay taxes, that’s wild. Back then I didn’t care as long as the next thing led to drugs or alcohol,” he said.
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