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IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson visited music charity Nordoff Robbins’s London, England centre earlier today (Monday, June 22) to celebrate Music Therapy Week. The Nordoff Robbins London Centre in Kentish Town is the world’s largest dedicated music therapy centre. Read more here…

More than 35 bands will play on Salt Lake City porches and yards Saturday as residents roam the streets during the fourth annual Heart & Soul Music Stroll in Sugar House. “It’s a free music festival. … You can just imagine the act of strolling down the street and here’s this blues band, and then you get a little bit further and you’ve got this wonderful singer-songwriter over here, and then you get a classic rock-and-roll band, and then you get a guy doing soul,” said Janna Lauer, the organizer of the event and founder of Heart & Soul. “It’s outrageously fun.” Read more here…

Billy Joel once said: “I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.” A movie and project being featured locally will go a long way towards showing just how much music can heal. Read more here…

The Eric “RicStar” Music Therapy Camp returns to Michigan State University this week, bringing the magical power of music to children and adults with special needs. The camp is dedicated to Eric Richard Winter, who was born with cerebral palsy and passed away at age 12 in 2003. Read more here…

LYNNWOOD, Wash. — It’s said that music soothes the savage beast, and it turns out a favorite song can also calm the most agitated Alzheimer’s patient. Fuzzy memories come into focus when Cora Freeberg hears a familiar song. Music has become an alternative to medicine at Quail Park in Lynnwood. Freeberg is part of a pilot project to see how music therapy can alter the aggressive behaviors of people living with dementia. Residents who’ve really struggled adjusting to the secured memory care community were hand picked to participate in the project. Read more here…

Living Care Lifestyles, the leader and simply the best in senior lifestyle communities, partnered with the Snohomish County Music Project(SCMP), to conduct a pilot study at Quail Park of Lynnwood, to assess the effectiveness of music with seniors living with Alzheimer’s and late stages of dementia. Read more here…

CHILDREN’S Hospice South West has been given a grant of £10,000 to enhance its music therapy facilities. The award from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation will help to support sessions with music therapists across the charity’s three hospices in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, including Little Harbour in Porthpean. Read more here…

Throughout the halls of Arkansas Children’s Hospital, you can spot Andrew Ghrayeb making his way to a patient’s room, slinging a guitar on his back and wheeling musical instruments on his cart filled with two xylophones, drums and two ukuleles. Rather than using medicine, Ghrayeb uses the healing power of music. Read more here…

The Harvey School is hosting the Northern Westchester Hospital Moms & Dads Rock at the Harvey School Walker Center for the Arts in Katonah on Saturday, June 20, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The event is a part of the Northern Westchester Hospital’s Music Therapy Program. Read more here…

While she sat in a chair for three hours, getting a transfusion to fight uterine cancer, Gail Driskill closed her eyes as a man strummed a guitar next to her. “Play anything,” the Boise woman would tell him. And he’d start with a classic John Denver tune or an improvised melody. As her face started to relax, he would bring down the tempo. As he brought down the tempo, her breathing would slow. Read more here…