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Children’s Hospice South West, which cares for and supports children with life-limiting illnesses and their families, has been awarded £10,000 by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. The money has been given out as part of the foundation’s grant programme aimed at funding education, accessibility and diversity in the arts. 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…

WHEN he fell terminally ill in 1976, a Christian pastor prayed over Michael Chandra Kumar and he was healed. The healing resulted in his family converting to Christianity. It marked a turning point in his family’s lives and took the Rakiraki native on a journey from poverty to abundance. Read more here…

The sounds of music will echo through the plants and flowers and along the winding paths of Penn State’s iconic Arboretum on Wednesday. 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. Read more here…

CHILDREN’S Hospice South West has been given a grant of £10,000 to enhance its music therapy facilities. The award from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation will help to support sessions with music therapists across the charity’s three hospices in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, including Little Harbour in Porthpean. Read more here…

Muic can certainly affect our mood, but can it affect our health? The answer to this question could be yes, according to researchers who have discovered that repeated musical phrases can affect the heart rate, raising the possibility that it could be used as a treatment for heart conditions. Peter Sleight, Professor Emeritus of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford in the UK, has presented the findings of over 20 years of research at the British Cardiology Society Conference in Manchester. Read more here…

For Rodrigo Amarante, music is the unity that binds our collective soul. On Friday, May 29, KCSB and The Goodland hotel are inviting all to come together in an intimate poolside student appreciation event, where the Brazilian-born multi-instrumentalist will explore themes of self and space through his beautiful acoustic numbers. I spoke with Amarante over the phone as he sat in traffic, where he reflected on the function of art, his roots, and coming together. Read more here…

The beeps of the heart-rate monitors. The tones of a ventilator as it helps a patient breathe. Hushed conversations about care. The calls over the public address system. In the intensive-care unit, it’s all a constant reminder those in here are the sickest of the sick. Read more here…

Now Easter Seals in Salem is using music to help small children overcome some big obstacles. Easter Seals just started a music therapy group for kids between 18 months and three years old. The class is designed for children with developmental disabilities, but children without disabilities are welcome, too. It has seven kids now, but there’s room for at least five more. Read more here…