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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Keith Kaiser sits down with some songwriters and learns how you can write songs too. Jennifer Barone and Brett Northrup, both Norton Healthcare Music Therapists, will take wanna-be songwriters through the process. Read more here…

A Cambridge academic has been the first recipient of an international honour for her work in the field of music therapy. Professor Amelia Oldfield, who helped to set up the world-leading masters degree in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin in 1994, has become the first ever recipient of the World Federation of Music Therapists’ Clinical Impact Award. Read more here…

JUST before little William Furlong ended his short life, he managed to do something he had never done before. The three-year-old who had a condition which affected his brain and left him blind and suffering epileptic fits, made a decision for himself. Read more here…

CHENNAI: Corporate Commitment, a funfair for differently-abled children organised by The Shakti Foundation, was held on Monday at The Music Academy. The event was presided over by chief guests S Murugappan and his wife, who inaugurated the funfair.  Read more here…

Lisa Gracey shares a puppet of an orange bear with 11-month-old son Duke, singing ‘Old MacDonald had a farm,’ encouraging him to be engaged in his music therapy class. He grabs at the soft material and bounces in excitement. Read more here…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals will team up to bring a dose of free healthy activities and information to this week’s Wade Oval Wednesdays, held in University Circle at Wade Oval Drive. WOW is a weekly concert series held from 6 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday during the summer, sponsored by University Circle Inc. Read more here…

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation has awarded the Music Conservatory of Westchester a $6,075 Quality of Life grant, which the school will use to fund its Music Therapy Institute. Read more here…

Alive Inside:A Story of Music & Memory fits my category Movies That Should Play in Sag Harbor. This Friday it opens nationally, as it begins its second week in NYC. Director Michael Rossato-Bennett literally ran to the post office before its midnight closing in order to submit it in time to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. At Sundance his film won the Documentary Audience Award and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene–equipped with an iPod and earphones, long-time nursing home resident Henry, who suffers from dementia, sits up in his wheelchair for the first time in years and starts cheerfully singing along to the Cab Calloway song–Alive Inside is extraordinarily uplifting. Read more here…

Musicians from one of the UK’s leading chamber orchestras have been performing in a residential care home to help people with dementia. Members of Manchester Camerata have been encouraging residents at Station House Care Home in Crewe to play instruments to stimulate their minds. Read more here…

LOS ANGELES — “Begin Again” sees Irish writer-director John Carney on a larger canvas, revisiting themes from his lo-fi 2006 indie hit “Once” — chief among them the emotional connectivity of music. Swapping Dublin for New York, and trading a single couple for a group of people all trying to mend broken bonds or forge new ones, the touching film again trades in uncynical heart-on-its-sleeve sentiment, and deploys a series of gentle ballads, a number of them performed by star Keira Knightley. Read more here…