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Digital Detox Week: Trying music lessons

"This week, we're helping you get off your phone with our Digital Detox week! Dylan from Long & McQuade is here to tell us about the benefits of music lessons!"

Watch at the link in the comment.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video/2026/03/30/digital-detox-week-trying-music-lessons/

Digital Detox Week: Trying music lessons This week, we're helping you get off your phone with our Digital Detox week! Dylan from Long & McQuade is here to tell us about the benefits of music lessons!

Thank you The New Classical 96.3 FM & Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra 🎺🎻📯🎵

FEATURE | The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra’s Summer Concert Series 2026 - Classical FM The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra’s Summer Concerts, a weekly free outdoor performance series, kicked off on July 22, 2026.

Singing the Shopping List: How Music Can Rewire the Brain After Stroke 🧠

"A series of tuneful techniques transforms melody and rhythm into tools to recover brain function."

Thank you Reasons to be Cheerful

Link in the comment

Photos from our 2026 Spring Recital 🎵 👏 If you do not see your child in the photo gallery, let us know!

2026 End of Year Recital (photos) | Hamilton School of Music Photos from our 2026 End of Year Recital.

Photos from our 2026 Spring Recital 🎵 👏 If you do not see your child in the photo gallery, let us know!

2026 Spring Recital (photos) | Hamilton School of Music Photos from our 2026 Spring Recital.

"A series of tuneful techniques transforms melody and rhythm into tools to recover brain function."

Thank you Reasons to be Cheerful

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/music-therapy-brain-injury/

Thanks for a critical look and speculations on these findings Harvard Health Publishing 😲🤓🐱‍🏍

Why is music good for the brain? - Harvard Health A study conducted by AARP found correlation between a person’s engagement with music and their opinion of their brain health and cognitive ability. While the study did not involve any objective m...

"Every performance demands hundreds of small decisions that audiences never see. We constantly monitor intonation, rhythm, balance, articulation, phrasing, ensemble, sound quality and communication with other musicians, all while managing our emotions and remaining fully present under pressure. By the final applause, it is not only our muscles that are tired. Our brain is exhausted as well. Yet unlike athletes, we rarely acknowledge this invisible fatigue. We simply pack our instruments, congratulate one another on a successful concert and begin thinking about the next performance.

Perhaps that is one of the biggest differences between music and sport. Athletes expect to feel tired after competing. Musicians often expect themselves to feel ready to practise again the very next morning."

Good piece The Strad 🎻😰

Why are musicians afraid to rest? Rethinking recovery in classical music performance In the first of a two-part series, cellist and researcher Joanna Latała debunks the myth that is ingrained in many performning musicians: that time away from one's instrument comes at the cost of progress

Thanks for these insights UKF 👍🧠

Connecting Electronic Music And Neurodiversity “Over 20% of the creative labour force are neurodivergent,” is what Charles Freeman and Becki Morris found out when they did research on the Impact of Covid-19 in DCMS Sectors for the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport (DCMS). Still we only have a handful of artists really speaking u...