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TEDx Nashville invites McConnell to present a TED Talk on December 6 (17:18)

Sarah Martin McConnell engages her TEDx audience in a sing-along to demonstrate how live music benefits us all. She shares her personal journey which led her to found Music for Seniors in 2007, along with music making research highlights involving brain plasticity – including how making music trains the ear to help us separate speech from background noise, especially later in life.

PBS News Hour Feature (05:46)

John Yang of PBS interviews Music for Seniors participants and learns how the group connects people through live music – and how measuring its effects, with the help of Vanderbilt University researchers, may benefit all of us.

Nashville “News Channel 5” Feature (02:20)

Musician Partner Kyshona Armstrong facilitates an Outreach program with Hadley Park Senior Group with comments by a senior participant. Sarah Martin McConnell speaks about the organization, its mission and the impact of its services.

Percussion Session and Daytime Concert (03:45)

Matt Bridges, Music for Seniors’ Program Director, Middle and East Tennessee, facilitates an interactive percussion session with narrative by Sarah Martin McConnell; Vanderbilt’s Blair Children’s Chorus Choral perform a public concert at Rutland Place Senior Living Community.

“NPT Arts Break” (01:46)

An introduction to Music for Seniors’ services and history, featuring Musician Partners Lady Corder Chapman and Stephen Curnow, founder Sarah Martin McConnell and Program Director Matt Bridges.

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