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The moment a favorite song comes on, the mood lightens. Whether it’s bringing crowds together at baseball games singing Sweet Caroline in unison, or the meaningful song a couple chooses for their first dance.  Read more here…

Music therapist Jerry O’Leary greeted his class at NewCourtland LIFE, a senior day center, with a promise to play some old favorites. “We mixed a little bit of gospel and a little bit of Motown here for you today, ’cause we know how you guys like that stuff,” said O’Leary, prompting claps and cheers from the room. Read more here…

TEMPE – When Scott Tonkinson begins working with clients suffering from memory loss due to Alzheimer’s or another cause, one of the first things he does is strum a guitar or play his keyboard. Read more here…

GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) – A nationally recognized music therapy program for cancer patients and survivors is now a permanent part of the Greenville Health System’s curriculum for people undergoing treatment. Read more here…

Six years ago, when he was still a teenager, Warren Hildebrand suffered the unexpected loss of his younger brother, Drew. During the period of depression and confusion that followed, the Canadian-born songwriter only ever found solace in sounds: listening to ambient engineers like Brian Eno, mastering his friends’ records and tinkering with his own breezy pop constructions. Read more here…

A music therapist from South Wales has told of her horror at being tear gassed while working with special needs children in Palestine. Liz Coombes, from Cardiff, says it is the first time she has been tear gassed during 10 years working as a volunteer there. Read more here…

The popular local youth music series Mr. H Presents is holding a fundraiser this week to help bring music to the lives of sick children. Mr. H Presents is working together with Long & McQuade to raise funds and awareness for the Music Therapy Program at the Janeway Children’s Hospital with a benefit concert this Friday at the Backlot at Grenfell Campus. Read more here…

How about a prescription for ear soothing music to fight and overcome stress and diseases? Sounds great isn’t it? Welcome to the world of music therapy. No matter if you have just had a break-up or have started with a new relationship, music is one element that fits in every situation of life. Then why not use it as a healing therapy?. Read more here…

Elizabeth Feytser’s tiny pink toes tap ever so slightly to the tune of “The Itsy Bitsy Spider,” playing at her cribside in the Sutter Children’s Center ICU. The soothing timbre of music therapist Kathleen Humphries’ voice rolls over the hum of heart monitors and oxygen pulsers as the 6-month-old’s lips curve into a curious smile. Read more here…

The important role music plays in the lives of people with autism will be highlighted in a music concert this Saturday in aid of a 22-year-old from Falmouth. Daniel Willoughby, who suffers with serious Asperger’s, a type of autism, needs to raise £2,000 as he has lost the funding for his music therapy since leaving college. Read more here…