Music For Maternity

Posts Tagged ‘music’

The community showed their support through prayer and song at the Lafayette Strong: Unite. Honor. Heal. event held at the Blackham Coliseum. With hands raised and hearts opened, the community honored those involved in the Grand Theatre shooting. The Lafayette Consolidated Government put the event together in just two days. They reached out to many local musicians and church choirs. Read more here…

A BRITISH study which saw dementia patients undergo music therapy resulted in improvements to their symptoms and wellbeing as well as a reduction in disruptiveness to staff at their care home. MUSIC therapy has long been known to help people with conditions such as dementia, as music appears to be able reach parts of the damaged brain in ways other forms of communication cannot. Read more here…

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Light background music fills the lobby of Northside Hospital-Forsyth. But this isn’t a radio or soundtrack playing. The melody is being provided by live musicians participating in the hospital’s Healing Sounds program and helping patients, families, volunteers and employees live better lives. Read more here…

EDMONTON — Jeremiah Manitopyes, whose native name is Old Man Eagle, is known to most as Drezus, his hip hop moniker. The 32-year-old has been following his musical passion for over 10 years. Now, he has been nominated for four Indigenous Music Awards. Read more here…

Community leaders are pulling together what’s being called a “gathering for healing” Thursday in the wake of last week’s theater shootings. The specifics were still being worked out late Tuesday, but the event — “Lafayette Strong: United. Honor. Heal” — is scheduled to run from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Blackham Coliseum on Johnston Street. Doors open at 6 p.m. Read more here…

The music therapy program at The Children’s Hospital in Westmead gets all sorts of requests for a tune and is yet to knock one back. It’s a policy that often fills the wards with music of all sorts, from traditional nursery rhymes to good old-fashioned hard rock. Registered music therapist Roxanne McLeod she was happy to facilitate whatever music the children requested. Read more here…

Having weathered one of the lower ebbs in love and life this year, the torch song-singing heiress has 2017 in her sights. Calendars are being dotted; diaries, scribbled. As part of an ambitious plan to mark Canada’s sesquicentennial two July 1sts from now, plans are officially afoot for “The Canadian Songbook,” a musical project covering some of the country’s most beloved songs reimagined through new arrangements, featuring nation-wide orchestras from Newfoundland to British Columbia. Read more here…

Music therapy can provide significant benefits for people with dementia living in UK care homes, according to new research by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). Music therapy can provide significant benefits for people with dementia living in UK care homes, according to new research by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). Read more here…

On Sunday, the Note-Able Music Therapy Service hosted the 3rd annual biggest little music festival. The nine hour event featured 11 local bands celebrating all types of music. Note-Able is the only non-profit music therapy agency in Nevada. Organizers say they serve more than 600 people with disabilities throughout the Truckee Meadows. Read more here…

Anna Maria College and Holy Trinity Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Worcester are sure that, together, they can make beautiful music happen for the residents of the nursing facility. Lisa Summer, professor and director of music therapy at AMC, is working with AMC alumna Danielle Pilotte and Holy Trinity to provide personalized iPods to about 30 elderly residents. The music-therapy project will focus on listening as a daily resource. Holy Trinity received a grant from UnitedHealthcare to help fund the project. Read more here…