Category Archives: Music Care Conference

10 great reasons to come to Music Care Fredericton – June 3 & 4, 2012

Raylene Rankin

  REGISTER HERE Ten Reasons… learn and experience  how music is connected to our well-being throughout our lifespan listen to how people in Atlantic Canada are using music in care Imelda Perley and the grandma’s healing drums from Maliseet First Nations Sistema NB, an orchestral music program for at-risk kids from Moncton Laurence Marie a...

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Music Care Conference 2011 – Waterloo

Steven Page

  Thank you to MCC Presenters for the exceptional opportunity to learn, share and be renewed in Waterloo on October 22. Thank you, too, to MCC participants for coming and for taking the time to give us feedback. For a brief look at how the day went, click here. Here are just a few of...

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Meet Joanne Does, Certified Music Practitioner

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There are multiple manifestations of music care practice.  Meet Joanne Does, whose personal story of caring for her mother with Alzheimer’s disease began a journey towards becoming a bedside musician. Here is her story. My name is Joanne Does and I am a musician working in healthcare. I work in various long term care facilities providing...

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Meet Rachael Finnerty, Music Therapist

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****Music Care Conference 2011**** Registration now open Please note Dr. Petra Kern, formally announced keynote speaker is not able to be with us due to unforeseen circumstances. I have come to appreciate that there are a number of therapeutic practices that use music intrinsically in the work. Music therapy is one such scope of practice....

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SAVE THE DATE! October 22, 2011

It’s official!  The next Music Care Conference will be held on Saturday October 22 in Waterloo ON at Wilfrid Laurier University.  In partnership with the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community, the Music Therapy Association of Ontario, Baycrest Hospital and the University of Windsor School of Music, Room 217 will present its second Music...

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