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  • A Carnegie Hall Concert Series Designed for Mental Health

    November 28, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The iconic New York City theater Carnegie Hall recently premiered a Well-Being Concerts series designed to maximize the health benefits concert attendees receive, such as reduced loneliness, anxiety, and stress. At these events, the audience is encouraged to get to know one another while they sit on floor cushions on the same level as the performers.

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  • Cree kids become recording artists talking about mental health, friendship and culture

    November 10, 2023 |

    CBC |

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    Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

    Cree youth in Calgary, Alberta, are expressing their views and experiences by writing, recording, and performing original music. The program, called Nikamo, is part of a collaboration between a local theater and a nonprofit focused on supporting youth mental health.

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  • Caste in India: Hip hop fights for Dalit rights

    April 02, 2023 |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Dalit hip-hop musicians are using their art and social media to propel the Dalit rights and anti-caste movements to the forefront of mainstream conversation.

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  • Fiddler Dennis Stroughmatt saves a French dialect – and culture

    December 05, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Old Mines, Missouri

    Fiddler Dennis Stroughmatt plays French Creole music, sings, and speaks in Missouri French to raise awareness about the language and culture no longer widely practiced in the region.

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  • U.S. orchestras are still mostly white. Here's how to change that

    May 05, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Since 1990, the Detroit Symphony's African American Orchestra Fellowship has offered two-year stints to Black musicians in an effort to diversify the group's membership. Fellows have gone on to join top-25 orchestras, win jobs around the world, and work as teachers, freelancers, and arts administrators, but racial disparities still persist in orchestras across the country.

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  • Will This Impact Fund Save America's Music Venues?

    April 30, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    The Live Venue Recovery Fund offers a path for independent music operators to purchase their venue. The fund buys the properties, and collects rent, but are limited to a 12% return rate and the contract lays out a path and timeline of operator ownership. Any additional funds are donated to the National Independent Venue Association. Eligible venues must be seen as culturally significant to the community and vulnerable to redevelopment, as well as show strong financial statements from before COVID-19. The fund forgave a year of rent to some venues hurt by the pandemic, allowing them to get back on their feet.

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  • Opera Singers Help Covid-19 Patients Learn to Breathe Again

    February 16, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: England, London

    To help patients recovering from COVID regain respiratory and vocal strength, the English National Opera worked with a London hospital to create a program that offers patients clinically proven recovery exercises taught by opera-singing tutors. While some regard the program as "a bit touchy-feely,” participants have expressed that it has helped both with recovery and feelings of isolation, and it is now being expanded to post-Covid clinics throughout England.

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  • Norway's Electric Car Triumph Started With an '80s Pop Star

    February 08, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Norway

    After Norwegian pop band A-ha made headlines for using an electric vehicle in 1989, the government began implementing incentives for people to drive the cars. These perks made electric vehicles so popular in the Scandinavian country that they had to start scaling some of them back. Still, by the end of 2020, nearly 90 percent of all cars sold were rechargeable.

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  • A Mariachi Family

    January 03, 2021 |

    Daily Emerald |

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    Response Location: United States, Springfield, Oregon

    Springfield High School's mariachi program creates a cultural bridge between generations and offers opportunities for high school students to learn about and share their culture. The school’s Mariachi Del Sol began in 2008 as just the second ethnically diverse music program in the state. Open to any student playing any instrument, it has grown significantly over the years and now offers a beginning and advanced class. The advanced class performs publicly, including an annual gig at Disneyland. The program's popularity led other schools throughout the state to offer mariachi to their students.

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  • Streaming Needs to Pay Artists More—but There's an Idea From China That Could Help

    November 20, 2020 |

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    A music-streaming service in China has successfully created a revenue stream for artists who can monetize direct exchanges with their loyal fanbase. Platforms like Apple Music, Pandora, and Spotify are responsible for almost 80 percent of global music revenue but royalties to artists are generally low. Some applications and services in the United States have allowed artists to receive micropayments from fans but making the process easy and convenient would require the larger streaming services to cultivate direct exchanges and incentivize "a digital tip jar."

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