Old Dominion's new song "Memory Lane" is bittersweet defined. A warm, traveling guitar beat drives you to a second verse that lets you down easy. Like the lover singer Matt Ramsey is describing, the ...

Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

Jenny Cook, the staff music therapist for the Songs by Heart Foundation, engages with a memory care resident on Nov. 4, 2022 at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany, N.Y. Cook helped train ...

Every single day we create new memories. And in doing so, we subconsciously intertwine specific experiences with our surroundings. Associative memory is an incredible psychological ability that ...

During workshops, seniors are asked questions to get them talking. Notes about the memory they want to share is pasted into ...

On a warm spring evening, Ellen Stewart gives her customary pre-performance blessing in La MaMa’s lobby. The downtown doyenne gestures to members of Poland’s Song of the Goat Theatre, who are waiting ...

Music offers structure, familiarity, and meaning when feelings feel messy or unclear. It helps regulate, validate, and ...