If you love making music with other people, 'Making Music Being Well' is an opportunity for you to hitch your wagon to this Australia-wide celebration of the links between music making and health.

Program a music event to take place where you work or play and help raise awareness about the therapeutic value of music: to heal, connect and energise.

Anyone involved in making music! It is open to music therapists and other health professionals; community and professional musicians; teachers, pre-school, family and day care workers; aged care professionals, music store owners, community volunteers, disability service staff, workplace choirs and bands.

The list of people coordinating events for 2008 includes:
  • A senior high school student in Adelaide
  • Music therapist at WA's Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
  • Sydney Symphony Orchestra's 'Music4Health' coordinator
  • A Northern Sydney Scouts and Cubs leader
  • A school teacher on Christmas Island




 
www.austmta.org.au www.musicplayforlife.org


More research and info here
Music as an empowering form of communication
"There is nothing like the experience of expressing yourself through music. Not only is music the language of the emotions, it is also a way of putting your real self out there and being heard. Society relies heavily on words as the medium for communication, but in group music making all the players can speak at once and experience the sensation of active listening. The reciprocal relationships that this allows is truly empowering and should be an essential part of the human experience."
Dr. Katrina McFerran, Lecturer - Music Therapy Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne VIC