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The American Music Therapy Association defines music therapy as the clinical and evidence-based use of music within a therapeutic relationship to accomplish individualized goals, which can include physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs. Read more here…

News 12 at 6 o’ clock/ Sept. 17, 2015 (WRDW) –Katherine Hargrove hasn’t really felt like herself lately. She says her normally upbeat personality has been overshadowed by the weight of a lymphoma diagnosis. “I just can’t stop myself from feeling sorry for myself,” she says. “I just feel so alone, even though there’s people all around me.” Read more here..

Sitting in a half circle around the cluster of sound equipment in the Mukwonago Community Library meeting room, musicians strummed their instruments, each taking a turn stepping up to the front of the group — if they wanted to do so. That’s how bluegrass jam sessions work. Read more here…

Fresh off releasing his new album The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, Gary Clark Jr. has unveiled the music video for the LP’s uplifting opening track “The Healing.” As the title suggests, the sumptuously shot, Gaston Jouany-directed music video centers on the healing power of music. Read more here…

Be it legendary Mozart’s soothing symphonies, mesmerising classical renditions from the doyen of Carnatic music MS Subbulakshmi or tranquil instrumental tunes, music therapy is increasingly being used for patients suffering from depression, anxiety, autism, chronic pain, Alzheimer’s, coronary artery disease and even cancer in India. Read more here…

A Vacaville native has taken her lifelong passion for music to help children with developmental disabilities transform their lives, one song at a time. It’s happening inside a Davis Street home that once housed a longtime Vacaville photography business, now home to a bustling music education and performance studio called the Young Artists Conservatory of Music. Read more here…

Gary Clark Jr. delivers a scorching rendition of the aching, uplifting “The Healing,” live at Austin’s Arlyn Studios in the first video from the guitarist’s new album, The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, out Friday. Read more here…

After four months at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Ireland Larson’s hospital room has become her own. It’s filled with stuffed animals, board games, handwritten notes, drawings of her favorite Disney princess, Ariel, family photographs and a heart-shaped electric guitar. Read more here…

FARGO — Bethany Retirement Living will launch a new music therapy program by hosting multiple showings of the film “Alive Inside” at both Bethany campusesTuesday. The event will focus attention on the impact that music can have on seniors, especially those with various forms of dementia. All showings are free and open to the public. Read more here…

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – A La Crosse senior resident center is making a relatively small amount of money go a long way. Hillview Health Care Center is using a less than $1,000 state grant to fund a special kind of music therapy. It’s called Music and Memory. The program uses the power of music to help seniors suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia relax and even tap into old memories. Read more here…