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Florida Georgia Line have released a snippet of a new song in response to the shooting deaths of five police officers by a gunman in Dallas last night, July 7th. FGL member Tyler Hubbard posted a photo of what appears to show two police officers — one black, one white — with the words “his life matters” written on their palms. The new song “Music Is Healing” plays over the image, an almost minute-long taste of the band’s updated sound that is expected on the new album Dig Your Roots, due August 26th. The LP features collaborations with Tim McGraw, the Backstreet Boys and Ziggy Marley. (Listen to the song below.) Read more here…

Dementia, strokes, Parkinson’s and other neurological illnesses are increasing in numbers as the baby boomer demographic grows older. Adding to this burden of care for the numbers of people with these illnesses are those who are younger and have suffered severe brain trauma. While mortality is decreasing, likely due to improved in-hospital care, it may mean that there will be more people living with the consequences of the brain trauma and requiring significant care giving. Nearly half of severe traumatic brain injury survivors have disability related to the injury after one year, some with minor cognitive, motor, or sensory problems, others in prolonged coma or minimally conscious states. It is rewarding to read about the use of music therapy used as a way to improve some function in these patients. Read more here…

Cambridgeshire Music operates one of the largest teams of music therapists in the country and since its establishment in 1995, the team has gone from strength to strength with music therapists working with individuals, as well as in special schools, mainstream schools, units attached to schools, clinics and children’s centres across Cambridgeshire. Read more here…

Dementia, strokes, Parkinson’s and other neurological illnesses are increasing in numbers as the baby boomer demographic grows older. Adding to this burden of care for the numbers of people with these illnesses are those who are younger and have suffered severe brain trauma. While mortality is decreasing, likely due to improved in-hospital care, it may mean that there will be more people living with the consequences of the brain trauma and requiring significant care giving. Nearly half of severe traumatic brain injury survivors have disability related to the injury after one year, some with minor cognitive, motor, or sensory problems, others in prolonged coma or minimally conscious states. It is rewarding to read about the use of music therapy used as a way to improve some function in these patients. Read more here…

REGISTERED music therapist Allison Davies is bringing her autism and music workshop ‘Music, Sound & Silence’, to Mackay. “There are a lack of specialist health care providers in regional areas, so why not empower parents, carers, educators and therapists with basic musical skills they can use themselves?” Ms Davies said.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A music therapist at a Michigan children’s hospital has made dozens of unique recordings as a gift for patients’ parents and other loved ones. rhythmic heartbeats of young patients then blends them with a recording of her playing guitar or singing a tune of the family’s choosing. Sova, 24, says it’s a way to ensure the heartbeats live on, regardless of what happens to the child. Read more here…

Houston, Texas—The famed multiphonic singers of Tibet’s Drepung Loseling Monastery, whose sellout performances in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center received national acclaim, will perform Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing in Houston as part of their international tour of The Mystical Arts of Tibet. The performance will be held at Asia Society Texas Center on Saturday, August 20. Tickets are $15 for Asia Society Members and $25 for Nonmembers. Read more here…

Nile Rodgers seems to be everywhere, just as he was in the ’70s and ’80s when he and Bernard Edwards steered Chic through a string of disco-era classics (“Le Freak,” “I Want Your Love,” “Good Times”), wrote hits for Sister Sledge (“We are Family”) and Diana Ross (“I’m Coming Out”) and produced albums by Madonna and David Bowie. Read more here…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) – Friends, fans and family gathered for a night of music and fun in honor of a local music producer. Coleman Saunders was shot during a robbery last week in Lexington, and now his friends are trying to lift him up. Read more here…

Even though patient Garrett Lambert is in an isolation room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, meaning visitors must don masks and gowns to enter, music therapist Holly Mentzer’s harp makes the enclosed room feel like a serene, welcoming space as she and Lambert harmonize.
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