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Live piano music, once the center of every living room, has largely fallen by the wayside outside of church services and the occasional school musical. Through the Miracles of Music series at Sanford Health, piano music is making a comeback. Read more here…

A TRAINED music therapist has begun working in dementia care homes across Salisbury delivering creative music therapy sessions for residents. Arash Bazrafshan, who has a BA degree in Music and an MSc in Music Therapy, relocated to south Wiltshire after completing his masters at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Read more here…

Music therapist Kathleen Brown spends two afternoons a week pushing around a cart of instruments to share with the patients at Baylor Scott & White Cancer Center. But her efforts could be cut short if the Scott & White Healthcare Foundation, the fundraising arm of the hospital, doesn’t successfully raise $20,000 by June to continue the program.
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I listen in wide-eyed wonder when my father tells the stories of what it was really like to work in the rhythm and blues business in a 1960s South. Holes were bore in the floorboard of their car, so bathroom breaks in segregated pit stops or on the sides of Alabama roads could be avoided. Read more here…

GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO—Several years ago, fed up with the violence engulfing their region, a youth group in Goma set out to hold a music festival for peace. The first attempt in 2013 was canceled as mortars rained down on the city. But in 2014, 25,000 people came to Goma to hear their favorite Congolese artists play. Read more here…

Later this week, one organization at Sam Houston State University is devoting time to explaining how music can have profound impacts on people’s lives. The SHSU chapter of the national music therapy organization Mu Tau Omega is hosting Music Therapy Awareness weekend to discuss the issues and benefits of music therapy. Read more here…

Lullabies are used to calm overexcited infants, and now a new therapy for Heritage Park residents with Alzheimer’s uses music therapy to do the same thing. Read more here…

ROCKFORD (WREX) – When faced with a life altering disease such as cancer, people tend to shut down and become depressed. But some patients at SwedishAmerican are benefiting from musical healing. Read more here…

EVANSVILLE, IND. – Strengthening speaking voices affected by Parkinson’s stroke, or other neurological disorders (or simple aging) is the mission of SongShine Foundation, a nonprofit public charity that sponsors music-based voice therapy programs using classical singing exercises, speech and respiratory therapy methods, rhythmic movement, and group singing to enhance speech. Read more here…

ATLANTA — At A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab at Wesley Woods, in Rosemary Bauer’s room, it’s time for therapy. “Is it okay if I put the headphones on?” music therapist John Abel asks the 99-year-old woman. Read more here…