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Today, the 67-year-old certified music practitioner provides soothing sounds to patients recovering at Florida Hospital Oceanside after taking a 46-year hiatus from the instrument. Therapeutic music is played at the patient’s bedside to relieve pain and anxiety. Read more here…

It has taken long enough, but finally Sia is everywhere. Having released her UK debut album, Healing Is Difficult, back in 2001, Sia has finally entered the UK album Top 20 with her fifth UK solo release, 1000 Forms of Fear, which appeared at number 11 last week. Armed with a commercially charged sound, reflecting the numerous hits she has written for everyone from Kylie to Rihanna, her latest album is a world away from the jazz-tinged experimental debut she unveiled thirteen years ago. While fans have flocked to Sia since she teamed up with David Guetta for the epic ‘Titanium’, here at So So Gay, we thought it was time to revisit the debut album that we fell in love with all those years ago, and still hold up as Sia’s most refreshingly exciting release to date. Read more here…

Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett had planned to film Dan Cohen, a social worker and founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, for a single day. Cohen had wanted to document his nascent program for elders with dementia who were springing back to life at a Brooklyn nursing home. Rossato-Bennett found himself crafting a story of music and memory around Cohen’s objective to bring personalized music to every individual in nursing homes throughout America. He filmed Cohen for three years. Read more here…

MIDLAND, TX, (Local Big 2 News) – A foster care center for abused and neglected children looks to start a music therapy program. “Music crosses barriers of culture, it crosses barriers of development,” says JaLynn Hogan, treatment director for the High Sky Children’s Ranch in Midland. Read more here…

POP star Peter Andre sprinkled a touch of stardust on a music therapy class. The Mysterious Girl singer joined in with a session last week at the Nordoff Robbins unit, based at the Brit School, in Selhurst. Read more here…

YouTube user MrFasthands65 has posted more than 1,000 videos of himself drumming on top of popular songs. “Fun is learning something and doing it well in your own mind,” Lou, as he’s known on the web, writes. “Perfection or striving for it is work and ruining your fun. As I aged I realized no one can be perfect, for there will always be some self-proclaimed critic to tell you you’re not.”  Read more here…

With advanced Alzheimer’s disease, language deteriorates and patients spontaneously speak less and less. In a small study from Israel, group music therapy sessions using tailored songs helped people with middle- to late-stage Alzheimer’s strike up communication. Read more here…

Music has long been used to help people celebrate and mark a special occasion. But one Michigan woman used it for something else – healing from a coma. Read more here…

MIDLAND, TX, (Local Big 2 News) – A foster care center for abused and neglected children looks to start a music therapy program. “Music crosses barriers of culture, it crosses barriers of development,” says JaLynn Hogan, treatment director for the High Sky Children’s Ranch in Midland. A new music therapy program, aimed at healing hurting kids. “All the children that are here at High Sky are here because they’ve been abused and neglected, and removed by child protective services,” Hogan explains. Read more here…

Oliver Jacobson started playing violin when he was six years old. At 18, he enrolled at Berklee College of Music, one of the top music schools in the country. Back then, he wanted to be a star. But he had a sense he might be able to use his talent for something more. Read more here…