Music For Maternity

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Support your local hopsital and check some amazing music on Saturday, July 26 from 7:00 – 10:00 PM. The Daddy Bands for Music Therapy is being held at The Harvey School’s Walker Center for the Arts located on 260 Jay Street in Katonah. Local bands include;
The Shaves, Ask Your Mom and ONL. Read more here…

“Begin Again” sees Irish writer-director John Carney on a larger canvas, revisiting themes from his lo-fi 2006 indie hit “Once” — chief among them the emotional connectivity of music. Swapping Dublin for New York, and trading a single couple for a group of people all trying to mend broken bonds or forge new ones, the touching film again trades in uncynical heart-on-its-sleeve sentiment, and deploys a series of gentle ballads, a number of them performed by star Keira Knightley. Read more here…

Little Talyn has called the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, home since April 15 and after being diagnosed with transverse myelitis — a neurological condition caused by the inflammation of the spinal cord — it will continue to be her home for at least another two months. But for a short while each week, she is able to forget her difficulties with the help of music therapist Matt Ralph whom she calls “Matt the music man”. Read more here…

Musician, composer and lyricist Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri on Wednesday provided a soothing musical experience to patients and bystanders of the Ernakulam General Hospital.A pioneer in music therapy in Kerala, Kaithapram rendered a medley of soulful melodies underscoring the therapeutic power of music at an ‘Arts and Medicine’ programme organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation in collaboration with the Mehboob Memorial Orchestra. Read more here…

Northern Westchester Hospital was forced to abandon its music therapy program about a year ago, due to a lack of funds. But thanks to a generous contribution from North Salem residents Paul Shaffer, who’s served as David Letterman’s musical director for nearly three decades, and his wife, Cathy, songs are now flowing once again throughout the Mount Kisco medical center. Read more here…

HYANNIS — On Flag Day about 10 seniors sat around a piano while Brianna LePage, a music therapist at The Gathering Place in Eastham, played patriotic tunes. It was hard not to toe tap and sing along to ”The Star-Spangled Banner.” And that’s exactly what many in the room did as an hour flew by. Read more here…

The role art and music can play in the recovery from a stroke or severe brain injury is the subject of a new short film shot in Halifax.”Strategies of Hope,” by Halifax filmmaker Ariella Pahlke, features patients and their families during treatment at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre. Read more here…

Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind, but actually it’s much different than that,” says meditation expert and former Buddhist monk Andy Puddicombe at the TEDSalon London Fall 2012. Read more here…

Waiting room music just got a whole lot better at Sanford Medical Center. “You know patients, families, and visitors, they are under stress and music is calming, it has a calming effect.  You know what goes on upstairs is very big business and when you come down here it will be like a little oasis.” says Irene Wentz with Sanford Auxiliary. Read more here…

Although it is easy to forget, music is one of the most significant ways a person can connect with his feelings. From the way a person’s ears perk up to the sound of her favorite song being played, to the emotion portrayed on an Olympic athlete’s face as he hears his national anthem play over a stadium’s loudspeakers. Movies and television use music to convey fear, sadness, excitement, anger and a variety of emotions. Read more here…