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BOONE—A $5,000 grant from the Whitener Foundation will fund a music therapy scholarship in Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music. The scholarship for a rising junior or senior music therapy major will be this fall based on the recipient’s academic, musical and clinical excellence as well as financial need. The $2,500-per-year scholarship can be renewed a second year. Read more here…

When Allison Davies strums her guitar and sings a warm-up note, the mood of the room is immediately happier — and that is music therapy at its most basic level. Music makes us feel good. It can motivate or calm us down. Music therapists like Ms Davies can also employ it as a tool for both psychological and neurological therapies, which can achieve real, clinical outcomes. Read more here…

One of the industry’s most flamboyant musical discoveries of the last decade, Baby Dee is an enchanting songwriter, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and transgender street legend. Read more here…

It’s only 11am on the first morning of Glastonbury and I have stumbled into a nightmare. Fifty festival goers yank their faces into Joker-like grins, “ha”-ing, “ho”-ing and “he”-ing in a circle of maniacal guffaws. A teacher stands at the front, jeering them along with a cackle. Read more here…

On a weekday, it’s normally an early start; responding to urgent emails before heading to my office at the music therapy research centre in Cambridge where I hold several roles as lecturer, researcher, supervisor, and passionate advocate for music therapy. Read more here…

When Kwanlin Dün Chief Doris Bill announced the camp on June 24, she had tears in her eyes. The First Nation is hosting a healing conference for youth in Whitehorse with participation from nine other First Nations. Bill says it’s urgently needed.  Read more here…

When the word therapy is mentioned, many people think of physical rehabilitation. But at The University of Alabama and other universities across the nation, students are studying a different type of therapeutics. Alabama is part of a growing group of universities that offers a program in music therapy. According to its website, the American Music Therapy Association defines music therapy as “the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.” Read more here…

Music for All Seasons received an Innovator Award for Voices of Valor, a program that helps veterans heal through musical expression, at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton. The Cultural Access Network Project (CAN), a program of New Jersey Theatre Alliance and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, hosted the 7th annual CAN Awards to honor leaders and pioneers of arts accessibility. Read more here…

KOCHI: Two Malayali brothers – professional singers who are currently on a holiday from their workplace in the Gulf – rendered popular songs along with their younger sibling living in Kerala, courtesy to a music show organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) here on Wednesday. Read more here…

Music is all about harmony and has a big role to play in bringing about harmony in society. On World Music Day on Sunday, this widely accepted concept found a novel expression in the capital city via Swaranjali, an organisation of music lovers. Swaranjali joined hands with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), Thiruvananthapuram, and the Maanaveeyam Veedhi Theruvora Koottayma, to honour T.J. Joseph, the college teacher whose palm was chopped off by fundamentalist elements in 2012, with the ‘Harmony Award’ for being a role model for religious and communal harmony. Read more here…