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(KPLR) – On Monday’s Afternoons on 11, music can be a powerful motivator and impact on people’s lives. Today April will show us how music is being used to promote healing in the St. Louis area. Read more here…

Marchers turn up the volume on music therapy. MISSISSAUGA — Dressed in orange and handing out fliers, around 20 campaigners marched through Port Credit on Sundayin an effort to highlight the transformative power of music. Read more here…

Music can bring back distant memories and have a big impact on a person’s mood. For the past year, Kylie Klym, an accredited music therapist, has taken advantage of music’s therapeutic qualities to help residents at four long- term care homes in Sudbury. Read more here…

Musicologist John Lehman visits SarahCare of Campbell adult day care center every Monday and Wednesday to spend one hour with the elderly. As executive director of the nonprofit Senior New Ways, his mission is to enhance the lives of adults who are 65 years old and older in the South Bay by stimulating their memories with music. Read more here…

Russell Peters, who owns Tonal Connections Music Therapy and moved to Thompson in the summer of 2010, is the only music therapist in Northern Manitoba. He carried his daughter, Ella, around the walking track March 30 at the Thompson Regional Community Centre (TRCC) as part of the local four-kilometre walk to raise money and awareness for music therapy. Read more here…

“While music is ‘magic therapy’ for us all, it can make the difference between withdrawal and awareness, isolation and interaction for those with special needs,” according to Barbara Crow, past president of the National Association for Music Therapy. “When used to empower and evoke contentedness in children with autism and special needs, music is truly trans-formative.” Read more here…

The Medical Center of Central Georgia is in the running for a nationwide contest for a $15,600 grant from Livestrong for a music therapy program for cancer patients. Read more here…

Singing River Health System’s (SRHS)  Regional Cancer Center has been selected as a finalist to receive the Jeffrey Frank Wacks Music Therapy Program as part of the LIVESTRONG® Community Impact Project, which was created to bring proven cancer support programs to communities across the U.S. Grantees will be determined through a public, online voting campaign going on now through April 11 on vote LIVESTRONG.org. Read more here…

MISSISSAUGA — A talented group of young adults with special needs are ready to rock The Crooked Cue in Port Credit on Sunday. The band Superfire is taking part in the inaugural March for Music Therapy, taking place in 14 communities across Canada on Sunday.  Read more here…

One of the most distressing occurrences at any nursing home is to see residents sitting in their rooms or common areas staring into space or with their heads on the table in front of them. In other words, there is an overall lack of stimulation and too few activities provided to engage residents.  Read more here…