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Get ready to dance in support of Music Therapy Awareness Month

March is Music Therapy Awareness Month and the Canadian Association of Music Therapists has a dance party ready to go.

How much oxygen do we have left? Oh. Think about that when you browse through music news for March 3,

January 18th is considered by some to be a “blue day,” or the saddest day of the year. Our holiday

Looking for a little musical joy in your life? Meet ASD, a very cool Canadian band of really talented musicians

As spring begins to move in and push winter out of its way, it’s also time to lace up your

March is Music Therapy Awareness Month – today, March 1, is World Music Therapy Day – and there are many

Listening to a song you love makes you feel good, right? In a very basic way, that’s what music therapy

We all know about the health benefits of music. But if you want to take things to the max, you

For reasons unknown to evolutionary biologists, our brains seem to be hardwired for music. Did these parts of our brains

Music is meant to be shared. For millennia, humans have created instruments, developed sounds and shared those sounds with people

I’m a big, big believer in music therapy and the good it can do for people. Over breakfast at the

Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
Mark Silver
King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
Mark Silver
Leading the pack in the Sports Betting Race – Jim Lawson in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 028 April 20, 2021
For several years, the legalization of single-event sports betting and the planned provincially controlled roll-out has been a hot topic. During that time, Woodbine Entertainment‘s astute executives have been watching and waiting while investing in the media and digital technologies that will be needed in a Canadian landscape where offshore behemoths are permitted to operate […]
Mark Silver