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On a weekday, it’s normally an early start; responding to urgent emails before heading to my office at the music therapy research centre in Cambridge where I hold several roles as lecturer, researcher, supervisor, and passionate advocate for music therapy. Read more here…

When Kwanlin Dün Chief Doris Bill announced the camp on June 24, she had tears in her eyes. The First Nation is hosting a healing conference for youth in Whitehorse with participation from nine other First Nations. Bill says it’s urgently needed.  Read more here…

When the word therapy is mentioned, many people think of physical rehabilitation. But at The University of Alabama and other universities across the nation, students are studying a different type of therapeutics. Alabama is part of a growing group of universities that offers a program in music therapy. According to its website, the American Music Therapy Association defines music therapy as “the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.” Read more here…

Music for All Seasons received an Innovator Award for Voices of Valor, a program that helps veterans heal through musical expression, at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton. The Cultural Access Network Project (CAN), a program of New Jersey Theatre Alliance and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, hosted the 7th annual CAN Awards to honor leaders and pioneers of arts accessibility. Read more here…

KOCHI: Two Malayali brothers – professional singers who are currently on a holiday from their workplace in the Gulf – rendered popular songs along with their younger sibling living in Kerala, courtesy to a music show organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) here on Wednesday. Read more here…

Music is all about harmony and has a big role to play in bringing about harmony in society. On World Music Day on Sunday, this widely accepted concept found a novel expression in the capital city via Swaranjali, an organisation of music lovers. Swaranjali joined hands with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), Thiruvananthapuram, and the Maanaveeyam Veedhi Theruvora Koottayma, to honour T.J. Joseph, the college teacher whose palm was chopped off by fundamentalist elements in 2012, with the ‘Harmony Award’ for being a role model for religious and communal harmony. Read more here…

IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson visited music charity Nordoff Robbins’s London, England centre earlier today (Monday, June 22) to celebrate Music Therapy Week. The Nordoff Robbins London Centre in Kentish Town is the world’s largest dedicated music therapy centre. Read more here…

More than 35 bands will play on Salt Lake City porches and yards Saturday as residents roam the streets during the fourth annual Heart & Soul Music Stroll in Sugar House. “It’s a free music festival. … You can just imagine the act of strolling down the street and here’s this blues band, and then you get a little bit further and you’ve got this wonderful singer-songwriter over here, and then you get a classic rock-and-roll band, and then you get a guy doing soul,” said Janna Lauer, the organizer of the event and founder of Heart & Soul. “It’s outrageously fun.” Read more here…

Billy Joel once said: “I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.” A movie and project being featured locally will go a long way towards showing just how much music can heal. Read more here…

The Eric “RicStar” Music Therapy Camp returns to Michigan State University this week, bringing the magical power of music to children and adults with special needs. The camp is dedicated to Eric Richard Winter, who was born with cerebral palsy and passed away at age 12 in 2003. Read more here…