Music For Maternity

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For as long as I can remember, my family members have had a tradition of coming to Thanksgiving dinner prepared with a thought, observation, or piece of artwork that illuminates their gratitude. Read more here…

For people with Alzheimer’s disease, art and music therapy can provide outlets for communication and connections with the past, even after memories and speaking ability are diminished. Read more here…

WEST JACKSON, Tenn. – For ages mothers have sung to their babies to quite their cries and lull them to sleep. That maternal instinct is proving more than just calming. Music therapists say research shows music combined with touch can heal. Read more here…

Every Wednesday morning, wounded warriors gather at the San Antonio Military Medical Center for therapy that rocks. Warrior Cry Music Project, an organization based in San Antonio, provides free musical instruments and lessons to injured soldiers around the country to help them through the healing process. Read more here…

The scene was a field of tall, poppy-wearing luminaries, nodding in polite conversation to Prince Charles as Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra came to the Royal Festival Hall in London on Monday night for a concert that is one of the highlights of its tour of the United Kingdom. Read more here…

Curt and Theresa Witeby— no strangers to the Simi Valley Hospital ER and intensive care unit—are now helping patients and their families heal through the “universal language of mankind.” Read more here…

What’s your dream? Are you living it today? If you are like me, you probably have it stored up on a shelf in your “someday” closet. I recently met a young man named Dylan Kuehl who lives his dreams every day. Dylan is 31-years-old, and a quick look at his resume makes me feel like I have some serious catching up to do. Published artist, motivational speaker, visual and performing arts company owner – these are some of the hats Dylan wears every day. He also wears an advocate’s hat because Dylan happens to have Down syndrome. Read more here…

Donside pop sensation Emeli Sandé has announced her support of a fundraising appeal to open an Aberdeen facility for a music therapy charity. Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy in Scotland requires donations of £20,000 to open a dedicated music therapy service in the North East. Read more here…

TRURO — It’s medical music to Lara Robinson’s trained ears. “They had a lot of success with it out West, so I’m excited,” Robinson, a music therapist at Cedarstone Enhanced Care in Truro for the past 16 years, said of the iPod Pharmacy program. The program collects good-as-new iPods from people who don’t use them anymore, pairs them with new headphones donated from Skullcandy and an iTunes gift card and delivers them to music therapists for use with their clients. Read more here…

It was a ragtag band jamming in a small outbuilding on the grounds of the San Antonio Military Medical Center. Some of the half-dozen guitarists were still learning the fingering for the A and E chords; others were more experienced. It didn’t sound great, but that didn’t matter. The men, all wounded warriors, were having fun. Read more here…