"We can use songs as containers to hold very intense emotions,” music therapist Stacie Yeldell said.
A number of years ago I made the mistake of attending an Alison Krauss and Union Station concert shortly after a breakup. The band was only one number into the set—maybe it was “So Long So Wrong”; ...
First Central Savings Bank partnered with the nonprofit Songs of Love Foundation to help connect community members in ...
A rotary club performed classic love songs for seniors at an assisted living facility, helping to evoke precious memories despite challenges from dementia. TULSA, Okla. - A rotary club did something ...
There are days when life feels heavy, like someone dimmed the brightness in our hearts. And then a familiar melody plays. An old tune from those carefree days, a soft worship song, or a danceable ...
Music has a unique ability to transform how we feel — it can cheer us up, make us cry, help us focus, or ease our frayed nerves. For centuries, writers and philosophers have waxed poetic about these ...
Born and raised in Southern California, artist/musician Kelly Jean Anderson first sang harmonies beside her father playing children’s songs at the piano. She studied classical repertoire from age five ...
Twice a month a group of about 30 Iowa City residents gathered, not to perform but to participate in a time-honored tradition: singing together as a community. Iowa City Community Sing, formed a ...
"It's not so much the singing that's sacred, it's the bond it creates between beings." Philippe Barraqué / At the Source of Sacred Song Chanting has a variety of effects on collective learning, ...
"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty." — Edmund Burke We all need beauty in our lives. Living, working, and “being” in beauty makes everything just a little bit better. As I’m writing ...