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Sun Health will offer a class on music as a therapeutic tool to improve brain health. The session, titled “Music and Memory,” will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday at The Colonnade, Recreation Village, 19116 Colonnade Way, Surprise. Read more here…

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Drake Brada-Pitts, 23, is a San Diego college student majoring in music composition. For the past year he’s been battling a recurrence of synovial sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. Read more here…

Students at Madison Elementary School are drumming and singing their way to better academic engagement. Pre-school and kindergarten students are participating in Music Together, a musical therapy program new to the school this semester, according to guidance counselor Jessica Laslo. Read more here…

As the Miles of Hope executive director for the past 10 years, I have had the pleasure of witnessing some very special moments: 600 people showing up in the pouring rain at our Community Walk last year; women in treatment for breast cancer cheering on their family and friends playing in their honor in our basketball or soccer tournaments; survivors volunteering at one of our events when only a year ago they were not feeling well enough to attend. Read more here…

Music therapy expands its reach in the Cayman Islands. The first Music Therapy practice started in Cayman in 2010. This year it expanded its reach with a pilot programme at the Cayman Islands Hospital. Founder and Director of Cayman Music Therapy, Julianne Parolisi, Music Therapist Kimberly Febres and Speech Language Pathologist, Faith Gealey, explain how patients are impacted by this service. Read more here…

Rochester, N.Y. – Patients at the Wilmot Cancer Institute now have access to music therapy through a new pilot program. Certified Music Therapist Mandy Elliot said, “I feel like music for me has been my own therapy. I always had singing, sit down at a piano and play something, and it somehow got out what I needed to get out.” Read more here…

A HILLINGDON music therapy group attended a special performance from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.  The annual Friendship Matinee is an opportunity for those involved in charities or communities projects to see a world-class show. Read more here…

The Pennsylvania House and Senate last week passed resolutions recognizing music therapy as a “valid therapeutic service,” which were very welcome to the state’s 400 board-certified music therapists, who serve about 41,000 state residents each year. Read more here…

As St. Joseph’s Healthcare prepares to scrap its music therapy program, one past client believes it is a real loss for the community.  As St. Joseph’s Healthcare prepares to scrap its music therapy program, one past client believes it is a real loss for the community. Read more here…

An angel in a Yorkshire Terrier suit. Those are the words we used to describe our family Yorkie, Peekaboo. In 2003, my father was paralyzed from an ischemic double stroke and spent the next 10 years in need of nearly constant care. In the sterile, somber environs of skilled nursing facilities, the daily arrival of a prancing, perky pet brought spontaneous energy. Joy to the aged and infirm. Smiles to caregivers. Light to the end of life. Last week, Peekaboo went to be with Dad. Read more here…