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Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan tells WSJ’s Lee Hawkins about his study of music therapy and how it’s used to help people overcome illnesses and chronic conditions. Read more here…

A grant of £73,852 has been awarded to a Northamptonshire charity that provides music therapy for seriously ill children by BBC Children in Need. Thomas’s Fund was founded in 2007 following the death of Lucy Smith’s son, Thomas, in 2004 from a neuro-degenerative disease. Since then it has helped children and their families across the county. 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…

According to the VA twenty percent of the veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering with PTSD.In Nashville, a group of songwriters are helping veterans heal with music. They are now working to bring Operation Song to Chattanooga this month.Music can be a powerful healing tool. Country artist Laurel Taylor and writer Don Goodman have seen it happen. They help veterans, veterans wives, and other family members turn their stories into music. Read more here…

Northern Westchester Hospital was forced to abandon its music therapy program about a year ago, due to a lack of funds. But thanks to a generous contribution from North Salem residents Paul Shaffer, who’s served as David Letterman’s musical director for nearly three decades, and his wife, Cathy, songs are now flowing once again throughout the Mount Kisco medical center. Read more here…

Vera and Jack Burrows met as teenagers. “Childhood sweethearts,” said Vera, brightly. “Then he dumped me when I was 17 and married someone else and we didn’t see each other for 54 years. We were at a dance and he said: ‘Is that you, Vera? I can recognize you from your thick ankles!'”. Read more here…

KOCHI: Music is soothing. It alters your mood swings. This might have led to the idea of using music for healing. ‘Raga Therapy’ is known to have been prevalent from ancient times.Some ragas help in relaxing our mind while some others rejuvenate us. ‘Raga Therapy’ selectively uses compositions in certain ragas for treatment. Read more here…

I know many of you have been to the Valencia Jazz and Blues Concert Series held each Friday night on Town Center Drive. Yep, right in the street.
Last night it was a group called the Delgado Brothers. WOW. Good jazz with a Latin twist, and they really lay down some great blues licks. Read more here…

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — On Flag Day about 10 seniors sat around a piano while Brianna LePage, a music therapist at The Gathering Place in Eastham, played patriotic tunes.It was hard not to toe tap and sing along to “The Star Spangled Banner.” And that’s exactly what many in the room did as an hour flew by. Read more here…

NEW DELHI: Having experimented with several new treatments, including stem cell therapy, researchers the world over seem to be falling back on behavioural intervention and music to heal autistic children. Read more here…