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As demonstrations in Baltimore over the weekend to protest the death of Freddie Gray took on a celebratory tone, the entire cast of the Bob Marley musical that is scheduled to open this week in that city threw a free concert there on Saturday afternoon at Penn and North, right in the middle of the demonstrations, and close by the spot where Gray was arrested. he cast of the Kwame Kwei-Armah-produced world premiere musical, Marley, features several Jamaicans, including actor and playwright David Heron, and former Miss Jamaica USA and Miss Jamaica World runner-up, Victoria Harper. Read more here…

When 73-year-old Shirley Livingston was recuperating from a knee replacement at the Cleveland Clinic’s Euclid Hospital in January 2015, a music therapist came to her room and played the flute for 30 minutes each day. Livingston, of Lake County, Ohio, is convinced that the music significantly helped soothe her pain. “There’s no doubt in my mind” that it was the music and not medication, Livingston says, because she refused to take anything stronger than aspirin. Read more here…

Anyone who works out a lot knows that the right music can make exercising easier. But one Boston startup hopes to take that idea a step further, exploring how music can be used in human health and the treatment of diseases. Ketki Karanam and Alexis Kopikis of Boston-based PureTech got the idea to look into music about a year ago after recognizing the potential for the fast-multiplying number of wearable sensors — think FitBit — to be used in conjunction with music-sharing apps such as Spotify and Pandora to gather data on how music affects peoples’ health. Read more here…

Approximately 1 in 70 children in the U.S are born with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It is often said that music has many healing powers, but can music therapy help those with ASD? All signs point to yes. There have been scientific studies that have proven the many benefits music has to our brains. Knowing this, it can be easy to see how those benefits can help with developmental disabilities such as ASD. But how exactly is this done? Emma Sturgis shares in this article how music therapy is helping this condition. Read more here…

It’s a universal prescription for good health — eat well, exercise and get 8 hours of sleep. Now, you can add a daily dose of music to the list. Mercy Health and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra are partnering to promote the relationship between music and wellness through a joint Music & Wellness Program,“Music does make you feel better, and it can make you think better,” said Dr. Stephen Wilson, a pediatrician and internal medicine physician with Mercy Health. Read more here…

There’s a wing of Chris Evert Children’s Hospital Fort Lauderdale that has ukeleles among all the medical paraphernalia. Look around and you’ll find guitars, a piano, harmonicas, and flutes. It’s all part of the hospital’s Music Therapy program, which has been around for the past five years, said Nicole Sant’elia, nurse manager for the hospital’s Pediatric Hematology Oncology Program. Read more here…

A group of city-based youth is using music to heal the quake-affected people in Nepal and collect relief material and money for them. The group Sachet Yuva Nepal (Alert youth of Nepal) is playing music in different parts of the city, collecting relief material and money. The group has two guitarists and a vocalist. It is also open to those who are not well-versed with music but want to participate in the relief exercise. Read more here…

Assemblymember Chris Holden’s Music Therapy bill to provide formal recognition to music therapists has been approved in the state Assembly and now goes to the Senate for consideration. Music therapists deliver plans that help improve an individual’s overall functional skills, such as physical and communication skills. Read more here…

Ysaye Barnwell didn’t plan to end up in Ferguson. Her vocal workshop was supposed to be held in nearby St. Louis, but it was going to conflict with St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and had to be moved. And so the Washington singer and composer found herself in mid-March in the headline-making Missouri city that had been on her mind for weeks. Before there was Baltimore, there was Ferguson, and she had found an aspect of the protests there puzzling.
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From Bob Dylan to The Beatles, musicians have been influencing the masses for decades. Now, music is changing lives in another way. “We’ve discovered music therapy helps certain neurologic conditions such as traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s disease,” said neurologist Dr. David Morledge. Peter Skidmore has been attending music therapy sessions to help him with a medical condition. Read more here…