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The typical image of therapy is fairly standard, often coming from memories of watching Looney Tunes and Animaniacs as a child- a psychiatrist with circular glasses and a long couch, a long conversation discussing how you feel and other such things. Read more here…

WHILE we applaud HCA Hospice Care’s effort to provide holistic patient-centred care, its music programme for paediatric palliative care is not considered true music therapy (“Star Pals a lifeline for critically ill kids and their caregivers”; last Friday). The Association for Music Therapy, Singapore (AMTS) welcomes and celebrates the use of music in education, healthcare or the community. Read more here…

Sometimes, Brooke Slemmer is the first to get a person to smile in months. The board-certified music therapist remembers one patient, a teenage girl, “wise beyond her years,” who was battling leukemia. Slemmer was with the patient for the entire journey, from her initial diagnosis to her third relapse, which Slemmer said left her in a vegetative state. Read more here…

Yes, this city has certainly earned a place on the cultural map, as Chris Daughtry noted during Sunday Night’s Rochester Music Hall of Fame induction and concert. “You guys created the Garbage Plate, which has made me happy on many occasions,” Daughtry told the crowd of about 1,800 at Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theatre.
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“Music works for everyone, if you love music and you know music motivates you, you’ll get along in life”, those were the words uttered by Martyn, a person who had been using music therapy as a way of alleviating anger that he was feeling inside. In my feature which was broadcast on Westside radio, I spoke about how music used as therapy, can help people suffering from mental illness and depression. Read more here…

This wonderful charity brings musicians to play to groups including children with special educational needs. Live Music Now (LMN) also brings joy to older people living on their own and in residential homes, hospitals or hospices.
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America’s fascination with electronic music did not happen overnight. It hit a fever pitch around 2011 and shows no signs of slowing down — in fact, for better or worse, it seems electronic music is the American music industry’s savior (or its death knell, depending on your point of view).  Read more here…

On a rainy night in Ballard, a group of family, friends, and fans came together to support and lift up two of Seattle’s brightest and beloved artists. Andrew Joslyn and Susy Sunborg, while on New Year’s holiday, came home to find that their apartment had caught fire. They lost nearly everything, including their beloved cat Mendelssohn. Being full-time musicians, the loss of instruments and gear, also meant lost revenue. Read more here…

Gannon University students interested in health care and music were able to gain insight from someone who combines the two last Wednesday. Martha Summa Chadwick, DMA, gave a lecture called “Biomedical Music Techniques” using her experience in the field of music therapy. Music therapy is a relatively new approach to treating debilitating diseases like Alzheimer’s and autism that uses music to teach patients the skills needed to improve quality of life. Read more here…

By 2007, Clarence Clemons knew that the Magic tour might be his last with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Age was taking its toll on The Big Man. A chair was incorporated into the stage setup so he could sit down when he wasn’t blasting out sax solos on songs like “Jungleland” and “Thunder Road.” Read more here…