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PEORIA, ILL. Of all the careers Katie Fitch could have chosen, the 24-year-old Peorian was drawn to music therapy. Fitch used her voice, her guitar, some space and some serious education to start introducing music therapy to the Peoria area. Using an empty office in her mother’s church — First Christian Church of Peoria — as a base of operations, Fitch has given musical therapy sessions to about 30 Peoria area people. Read more here…

Joanne Shenandoah traces her ancestry back seven generations to Chief Oskanondonha, also known as Skenando, chief of the Oneida people. Oral tradition passed down through those generations holds that Skenando, who lived to be 110, was instrumental in aiding the American cause in the Revolutionary War.Read more here…

When filmmaker Anne Henderson decided to make a documentary about Claire Duchesneau, a hearing-impaired social worker who strives to rediscover her singing voice, she was not prepared for events to unfold for the worse. Read more here…

Strand of Oaks’ Timothy Showalter has never been a confessional songwriter. His 2010 album, Pope Killdragon, was a sort of sci-fi creation, featuring his story of Dan Aykroyd avenging the death of the late John Belushi. But the process for his newest record, Heal, has been different. Influenced by a personal realization that he (in the lyrics of “Goshen ’97”) had become “fat, drunk and mean,” Showalter began to change his life. He wrote a record about it. And then a terrible Christmas Day car accident involving two semi trucks changed him even further. Read more here…

You can’t be all things to all people, it’s quite true: just look what happened to Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers. All right, mass popularity and enormous sales, bad example, but a band who can’t decide what they want to be usually ends up as a terrifying mix of song styles and hideously clashing genres, and… hang on, perhaps the Jive Bunny reference was right after all. Read more here…

Two days after her fourth birthday, Hiyam Sabbagh was diagnosed with cancer. What started out as a tumour in her left kidney was found to have spread to other areas in her body. It was another two weeks before her family knew the type of cancer involved. For the past nine months, Hiyam has been fighting the disease with a mix of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, administered at the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick. Staff and volunteers from the hospital’s Play and Music Therapy Department have worked with Hiyam since November to help prepare her for the procedures and treatment involved. Read more here…

“Crescendo” is a weekly music therapy group designed for those with neurological impairments such as Parkinson’s Disease, stroke or traumatic brain injury, and their families. Patients, along with their family members or caregivers, can play instruments, sing, move, and connect with others through music. No prior music experience is needed. Read more here…

EDINA, Minn. (KMSP) -The music coming out of the speakers is from a different era — the good old days, according to 83-year-old Whitey Westlund. If only his 82-year-old wife Audrey could remember. Read more here…

The presenters are Laura Beer, Ph.D., MT-BC, ACMT, director of the music therapy program at Marylhurst University; Liska McNally, MT-BC, clinical supervisor, Marylhurst University; Jessica Western, MT-BC, vice president, Oregon Association for Music Therapy; and Jodi Winnwalker, LCSW, MT-BC, CEO, Earthtones Music Therapy Services. McNally and Western also teach music therapy at Marylhurst. Read more here…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida State University professor is the first-ever winner of a new international award designed to recognize the top researchers in the field of music therapy. Read more here…