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Back in May, Music24’s Graeme Davis sat down with journalism graduate and Beyond Sound podcast host, Yasmin Cox, to chat about music therapy interventions and myths.
We are pleased to share this interesting podcast now and hope you enjoy listening. The podcast, What Is Music Therapy? A Chat With Graeme Davis, is found below or on the music platform Spotify.
Participants of Music24’s dementia group in Luton were please to be invited to represent the charity at the Alzheimer’s Society’s Luton Dementia Conference 2022.
For the occasion, the group wrote a special song about being together and their experiences from the therapeutic music sessions they attend at Music24 every week. Here’s the group in action on Wednesday 12th October 2022:
Sing Together by Music24
Verse 1
Come and sit down
Tell me what’s going on
Just a cup of ‘Rosie Lee’
Soon it won’t take long
To see your smile again
Come on, my old friend – and let’s
Chorus
Sing – sing together
Sing – together we’re better
Sing – let’s sing together
Sing with me
Verse 2
Sometimes, it might get mad
And other times, we’re glad
You bring the sunshine to my heart
Yeah we have a good laugh – when we
Chorus
Sing – sing together
Sing – together we’re better
Sing – let’s sing together
Sing with me
Bridge
Sometimes when things get tough
Oh yeah, when you’ve had enough
I’ll be there for you
Like you are there for me! And we’ll –
Chorus
Sing – sing together
Sing – together we’re better
Sing – let’s sing together
Sing with me
We’re pleased to report that we will be starting a new Singing Cafe in Leighton Buzzard from Friday 13th! We’re very excited to bring this new opportunity to residents in the Leighton & Linslade are and look forward to watching the group grow! Thank you to Leighton-Linslade Town Council for supporting this venture, it’s much appreciated.
We will set subsequently on the 2nd & 4th Friday afternoons of every month there after if all is a success. Details below:
The month of May brought us Dementia Awareness Week 2017... and for this, Friends with Voices joined forces again to raise awareness to dementia and promote all the wonderful things that are happening in Luton.
A video, produced by London Luton Airport, accumulated a whopping 16k+ views! Here's the video of a little sing-a-long we had whilst there:
A nice Costa coffee after the show!
We'd like to recommend a good read.... Our lovely new newsletter that summarises a few key achievements of 2016! The team are delighted to present this to you....
We're raising money for our much needed work involving children and adults with various learning disabilities in Luton.
'The Cadence Project' is due to start in January 2017 and help children and adults facing difficulties in life including learning disabilites such as autism, asperger's, ADHD, multipule/profound disabilies and other life-limiting conditions.
Music helps us to express the inexpressible. So join us for a night of fun and banter, and maybe some amusing trivia!
Tickets are £5 each, you can pay in advance or through our localgiving.com/music24 page by entering code: 'QuizNight1' and we will add you to our guest list! (P.S. we get Gift Aid this way!)
The bar is available and there will be a raffle held where our service users and local businesses will be donating raffle prizes. 1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes TBC. We have room for 6 teams of 6-8 people. Either apply as a ready-made team or as an individual and we will put you in a team. Best of luck!
For our Facebook event page, click here.
