Backyard jazz

Carol Sudhalter on the flute, busking in Astoria. Carol is at Victory Garden on Thursdays with keyboard accompaniment by Wajdi Cherif. Give them a call for possible rainouts.

Join me and other revelers in a jazz concert at El Barrio PS 109 Art Space on Wednesday September 23.

No rainouts here: The Backyard Jazz at the El Barrio Art Space PS 109 will go indoors if the weather is inclement.

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Music to your ears

You are hard-wired to react to music. We all are.

This is a neurological fact.

Music is what we, or rather our forefathers, used to communicate before they developed language.

You might think of song as words before words were formed.

This is amazing, as is the theory you will hear about in the video linked above.

Music releases dopamine.

It can help alleviate pain.

Music can stimulate memory as well.

It can mitigate the effects of Parkinson’s.

It also helps with other neuro- degenerative diseases.

Professor Daniel Levitan will tell you more in his conversation at StarTalk.