Joanne Brohman’s goal at Mohawk College is to train recreation therapy students who are skilled and confident when they graduate, and who are able to enrich the quality of life for the people they support after graduation.
He's been dead longer than he lived, but Elvis Presley - The King - is still known as much for his lifestyle as for his music.
Poodles skirts, saddle shoes, ducktails and fins on your cars. If these words don’t evoke memories and images from the ‘50s maybe this will:
Room 217’s 2020-2021 webinar series launches with a timely presentation by Dr. Remi Chiu called Music in Times of Plague and COVID-19.
Ask people what folk music is, and you'll get a variety of answers. Is it about the music? The lyrics? The song's history? According to Wikipedia's entry on folk music, it's all of those things: music that's performed by custom over a long period of time; that has no known composers; and that has been transmitted orally.
As explained in this blog post Not Afraid album, the intent behind the Not Afraid album was not to tell people in hospice palliative care that they needn't be afraid; it was to let them know there are people who love them and are sharing the journey.
Room 217’s music was designed for use in palliative care. The music is produced at 60 beats per minute (resting heart rate) which has several benefits for the person receiving palliative care. It also aids others in the circle of care. This link will take you to a report that discusses the benefits of music in hospice palliative care.
Do you remember where you were the first time you heard them? The Beatles? Had you heard them on the radio? Or was your first experience with The Beatles watching the Jack Paar show, or Ed Sullivan?
Room 217’s British Invasion album features 16 tracks of soloists and bands from the U.K. that changed the North American music scene.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. That’s all you need to read and you know the song. In fact, you likely sang it as you read it.
