Think back to when you were a teenager. Do you remember how excited you were when your favorite singer or band released new music? Did...

Have you ever said these words? “I’m not a good singer”, “I just can’t sing”, or “You don’t wanna hear me sing”. Perhaps you’ve been...

All performers grapple with the anxieties of stage fright.  This is a Ted Talk tale of how one musician, Joe Kowan, found a remedy for his. Joe Kowan is a Boston-based musician and graphic designer who has been struggling with stage fright since he first started writing songs at age 27. Despite his adorably expressed fears, he charms audiences with his own style of quirky folk and acoustic hip-hop, by turns poignant, salacious and comical. In 2009 he released the gangsta’ ar

Think a song sounds good? If tech companies get their way, music will also physically feel good too. Applying the science behind bone...

Well…. Your memory at least. Music creates the strongest form of memory. Have you ever wondered why when you hear a familiar tune it can...

Piano prodigy Elias Phoenix, 7yo at the time of this recording, completely wowed audiences when he made his first debut performance on the Ellen show .  He returned for another great performance and entertaining personality soon after that.  This boy has a lot of spunk!  I am surprised that a child with that much energy could “still” himself long enough to go through the dedicated hours and days and years it takes to build up his piano skills to the high performance level he’

The Axis of Awesome’s song “ 4 Chords ”, a medley of 36 pop songs that all contain the same basic chord structure, received airplay on BBC Radio 1. This airplay drove listeners to the internet and “ 4 Chords ” went viral, receiving millions of hits on YouTube.  The musicians in Axis of Awesome not only have an interesting concept for this song, but they also have excellent voices for it – demonstrating lots of vocal range and style to stay true to the individual songs that ar

As you prepare your special holiday meal this season and seek to create the perfect sonic background for you and your guests, consider...

As reported by PBS.org – “A study by E. Glenn Schellenberg at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, as published in a 2004 issue of...

Summer break is approaching rapidly. There will be camp days, beach trips, and lots of giggling children enjoying their summertime...

About 20 members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) arranged a flash mob inside Ikea on Jan. 12, 2016 to promote their new Neighborhood Concert Series in Canton. Shoppers gathered around, many taking photos and videos with their smartphones, as the DSO brightened up the wintery day with Beethoven’s “ Ode to Jöy.” Gabrielle Poshadlo, DSO Communications and Public Relations Manager said the idea came while brainstorming ways to promote the new Canton concert series.   “We

It happens when you least suspect it.   Your child is singing a song she learned at school. All of sudden you’re singing the song too, first with her and then through the rest of the day.   You are bored at work. Then, you start singing a tune you don’t even like but you cannot stop singing it!   The phenomenon, often called having an earworm (or scientifically known as involuntary musical imagery), is a real thing that affects up to 92 percent of people at least once a week

Let’s be entirely honest, singing karaoke is not everyone’s idea of a good time. For some it may be embarrassing or spark a fit of...

Traditionally, we’ve gone out to our local Karaoke Night to do some singing with a group of friends, but lately, those with a Karaoke itch have been turning to their smartphones.  That’s why The Voice created StarMaker , a karaoke app for android and iphones , says its users have logged 2 billion minutes of singing time since launching in 2010 – around 23,000 hours per day – and has nearly half a million likes on Facebook.  You can choose to submit a recording from the app t

Can you imagine meeting your celebrity crush or childhood idol ? What would you say? Some people turn into the quintessential fan and lose control of themselves. Others have somehow mastered the art of staying “cool”. It’s safe to say that these two young men stayed pretty cool under pressure. Bryce Hayashi and Michael Miller were courageous enough to stand in front of the home of their idol (John Williams of  Star Wars fame) and perform one of his most notorious compositions

Regular readers of our blog will know that we love science almost as much as we like music. Whether we’re seeing singing and dancing NASA...

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! According to scientific studies, people who listen to Jazz music are proven to be smarter and more...

Parents and Teachers all agree that they would like children to correlate their success at school to how much work they put in.  So that,...

Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. Only “Sound of Music” buffs will catch that reference. It will always be one of my personal favorite movies. The story of a talented family of singers and musicians based in 1930’s Austria, a very volatile time in our world history. The Von Trapp Family Singers were like a breath of fresh air and their story has been passed on through the generations. Well here’s another breath of fresh air for our own modern day

If you’re having a difficult time remembering people’s names you can blame the cause on something other than your memory. You can blame...