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The MSU Community Music School will host the 12th Annual Eric ‘RicStar’ Winter Music Therapy Camp June 9-14. RicStar’s Camp welcomes individuals of all ages with special needs as well as their siblings. Camp will be held for children and adolescents at 9:30 a.m. from June 9 to June 11 and will be held foradults at 9 a.m. from June 12 to June 14 at the Community Music School located at 4930 S. Hagadorn Rd. in East Lansing. Read more here…

Sun Health will offer a free class on music therapy for dementia patients from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday at The Colonnade, Recreation Village, 19116 Colonnade Way, Surprise. Read more here…

WOULD you rifle through your CDs to look for your favorite song if you were on the verge of giving birth? If so would you pick out a power ballad, a dance floor filler or a rousing rock classic? According to a study, four out of five mums now listen to music whilst giving birth. Read more here…

Cancer Center. PHILADELPHIA, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced a $50,000 gift from seven-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift, which will be used to create specialized programming for teens with cancer treated at CHOP’s Cancer Center. The first initiative will be to establish a high-tech music therapy cart for teens to create and produce their own music while they go through cancer treatment. Read more here…

Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the conventional weapons used to battle cancer, but now Greenville Health System is adding music therapy to the mix. Read more here…

Garrett Willner was almost 4 years old when he sang his first words. His mother, Joy Willner, was worried he might never talk. Then, one day during an afternoon bath, Garrett opened his mouth and began to sing “C is for Cookie” from the popular children’s TV show sesame street. Read more here…

Music therapist Kate Beever met with a client once who refused to take his medications. The man, in his late 60s, was hospitalized with prostate cancer and reluctant to interact with the medical providers trying to help him.  Read more here…

Anyone who has blasted Arcade Fire before a party can attest to music’s transformative powers. But music isn’t just a mood-booster: Music therapists use pitch, rhythm, melody and lyrics in specific ways, with the explicit intent of affecting cognition or emotion in the person who is hearing them.  Read more here…

DEARBORN — Recent studies and books have determined that music and art bring healing and social benefits to all ages, especially older adults. In the book, “Bringing the Arts to Life,” funded by the Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation, author Judy Rollins offers a guide to the arts and long-term care.  Read more here…

During the last years of James Jenkins’ life, his son, James Jenkins Jr., who is principal tuba player with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, would often visit his father in hospitals in Waycross, Ga.  Read more here…