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MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Music is more than just entertainment for a group of students at Georgia College in Milledgeville. While taking classes in the music therapy program at the school, they’re using their voice, instruments, and songs to help people in their community. “There are a lot of different definitions of music therapy. I think the easiest way to think of it as being able to use music as a tool to help people with a wide variety of things,” Katie Whipple, an lecturer in the GC music therapy department said. Read more here…

KATHMANDU, April 5 (Xinhua) — Bono, the lead singer of U2, a popular Irish rock band, once said that “music can change the world because it can change people.” This is what a group of music therapists here are trying to do with autistic children in Nepal.”Music therapy can be beneficial to children with autism. The greatest challenge is to build trust in the relationship between the therapist and the child,” Kendra Gandharba, a clinical music therapist told Xinhua Wednesday as Nepal joined the world in observing Autism Awareness Day.  Read more here…

GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) – A nationally recognized music therapy program could come to Greenville Hospital System if the community rallies to get it there. The Jeffrey Frank Wacks Music Therapy program combines uplifting songs and group therapy to create a communal healing process for cancer survivors and patients. Cancer survivors tested the program out Tuesday, as a certified music therapist came to the Greenville Cancer Institute to demonstrate the benefits of the program. Read more here…

Music not only has its effects on the body, but it also helps in releasing a hormone called serotonin which happens to be the feel good hormone and helps in promoting the feeling of happiness and helps our moods to stay away from anxiety. Read more here…

Sager, a music therapist, artist and composer, explained how direct engagement in the creative arts can help heal people and act as a medicine for the mind, body and soul. “Music is a powerful way to engage people,” Sager said. “Direct engagement brings a person back. Gone are the days of passive observing. It’s about remaining active and participating.” Read more here…

Once a Sunday School pupil at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Nicholas Sager returned to the church Saturday to lead a workshop, Creativity and Aging. “There are so many negative stereotypes about aging, and we forget that we’re more than our disease,” Sager said. “Creativity allows us to wake up what’s alive within us.” Read more here…

If you ever wondered whether music could help protect your health, consider the life of Maria von Trapp – “Louisa” in “The Sound of Music.” Read more here…

(KPLR) – On Monday’s Afternoons on 11, music can be a powerful motivator and impact on people’s lives. Today April will show us how music is being used to promote healing in the St. Louis area. Read more here…

Marchers turn up the volume on music therapy. MISSISSAUGA — Dressed in orange and handing out fliers, around 20 campaigners marched through Port Credit on Sundayin an effort to highlight the transformative power of music. Read more here…

Music can bring back distant memories and have a big impact on a person’s mood. For the past year, Kylie Klym, an accredited music therapist, has taken advantage of music’s therapeutic qualities to help residents at four long- term care homes in Sudbury. Read more here…