Music For Your Health

When your favorite song comes on the radio, do you turn up the volume, listen closely, and sing along – instantly feeling better than you did moments before? It turns out that there’s a lot of science behind this phenomenon!

Research in the field of music therapy expanded experts’ understanding of how music contributes to our good health. The ability to respond to music is natural. Whether your taste runs to Bach, the Beatles, Beyoncé, or plain a capella, music is known to boost our immunity, lower blood pressure, reduce stress and anxiety or muscle tension, combat insomnia, or just makes us feel and function better overall.

The Honolulu Blend Show Chorus is a female a capella group for all women over 16.    Need an emotional or physical boost?  Come give a capella 4-part harmony a try on Monday nights from 6:30-9:30 pm at the Fleet Reserve Association, 891 Valkenburgh St (off Nimitz, near the airport).  When you do, you won’t be putting on a CD and just singing to background music. Instead, you will become fully engaged in the music, creating wonderful harmonies.  No worries, you don’t need to read music, but singing on key is very important for our art form. 

While almost anyone can benefit from music, a person with a significant health problem should work with a board-certified music therapist.  American Music Therapy Association, 301-589-3300, www.MusicTherapy.org

Honolulu Blend Show Chorus

is a prospective chapter of

Sweet Adelines International www.sweetadelineintl.org. 

Visit our website at honolulufemaleharmony.org, email honolulubsc@gmail.com,

or call 277-4439 for more information. 

Real Women, Real Harmony, Real Fun.