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PostHeaderIcon Music Therapy and the Stroke Patient is June topic for Stroke Support Group

Music Therapy and the Stroke Patient is June topic for Stroke Support Group

The June meeting of the Stroke Support Group at Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital will feature Ann Morrow, Memorial Hermann Neurologic Music Therapist, speaking about “Music Therapy and the Stroke Patient.” Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Music is great ‘medicine’ for N.J. hospital patients

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Stonehouse, a Washington Township resident who works as a respiratory therapist, isn’t a musician but describes herself as a fan. She says volunteering combines her love of music with helping people: “When you see patients’ reactions, it’s really good medicine. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy ‘reversed cancer’

Katy Meiklem claims listening to therapy music has cured her arthritis and skin condition and reversed cancer Carlos Alba Media/PA Wire)

A woman claims her arthritis and skin condition have been cured and her cancer reversed after she listened to “musical medicine”. Within 12 weeks, she said the psoriasis was gone and she was able to walk up hills, cycle and do a number of other activities she had not be able to do for seven years. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon How Music Therapy Students Helped St. Louis Kids Confront Urban Trauma

How Music Therapy Students Helped St. Louis Kids Confront Urban Trauma

Midway through the concert, the Sun Theater’s spotlight in St. Louis was on 13-year old Thomas Mack. He was performing a song called “Never Backing Down,” a song he’d written with Maryville University graduate student Ryan Eversole. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Children’s Hospice South West secures music therapy grant

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Children’s Hospice South West, which cares for and supports children with life-limiting illnesses and their families, has been awarded £10,000 by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. The money has been given out as part of the foundation’s grant programme aimed at funding education, accessibility and diversity in the arts. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon The healing power of music, from one Salt Lake City porch to another

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

PostHeaderIcon Kumar dedicates music to God

Michael Kumar with one of his gospel CDs in Rakiraki. Picture: BALJEET SINGH

WHEN he fell terminally ill in 1976, a Christian pastor prayed over Michael Chandra Kumar and he was healed. The healing resulted in his family converting to Christianity. It marked a turning point in his family’s lives and took the Rakiraki native on a journey from poverty to abundance. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Arboretum to be filled with music with ‘Music in the Garden: Healing the Soul’ event

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The sounds of music will echo through the plants and flowers and along the winding paths of Penn State’s iconic Arboretum on Wednesday. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon The magic of music: Eric ‘RicStar’ Music Therapy Camp

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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. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy grant for children’s hospice

​Shelbie Pate-Williams enjoys music therapy with therapist Cerdiwen Rees at Children's Hospice South West

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

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