Exploring the healing potential of music in grief with engagement with the arts, community and research.
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Musician @dugmacgregor is fundraising for Winston’s Wish with the release of his new album, Songs of Loss and Healing. He explains how music has helped him process his childhood grief 👉 buff.ly/3cTa8Vy
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Wrote for @winstonswish about childhood bereavemet, its mental health effects & how music allowed me to move forward.
All revenue from my album are going directly to Winston's Wish. Please support their fantastic work here: douglasmacgregor.bandcamp.co…
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2020
Musician @dugmacgregor is fundraising for Winston’s Wish with the release of his new album, Songs of Loss and Healing. He explains how music has helped him process his childhood grief 👉 buff.ly/3cTa8Vy
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Video Premier of Grasping the Wind on @FRUK!
A lovely write up, too.
"While this may be wordless, it’s all the stronger for it, some things can’t be said in words and are best left to the power of music to convey them, Douglas MacGregor achieves that to great depth here."
Video Premiere: Today marks the release of Douglas MacGregor’s new album Songs of Loss and Healing. Watch ‘Grasping the Wind’, about reconnecting through music to a lost past. folkradio.co.uk/2020/05/vide…
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Lost my mother at 7. I wondered with suppressed grief one step removed from life for 25 years.
When grief hit, music was my way to feel, to process and to heal.
Listen here: douglasmacgregormusic.com/so…
#mentalhealthawarenessweek2020
#CreativityandWellbeing
#musicheals
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Out tomorrow! 100% revenue to #fundraise for @winstonswish to give bereaved children hope.
Preorder here:douglasmacgregor.bandcamp.co…
#mentalhealth #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2020
#musicheals
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The music is "emotional communication - the conversation was initially between his wounded psyche and an instrument, but it is now with the listener's own experience."
Insightful remarks from @FromMargins during #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2020
#MusicHeals
fromthemargins.co.uk/pages/r…
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"MacGregor's wordless songs...are hugely successful as emotional communication" / "It is hard not to be moved."
Lovely words from @frommargins on the new album:
fromthemargins.co.uk/pages/r…
Album out tomorrow, all revenue to @winstonswish Pre-order: douglasmacgregor.bandcamp.co…
Songs of Loss and Healing retweeted
Today I was meant to be speaking/playing as part of the #creativityandwellbeingweek and last week at Bristol University. Instead, with new album, am trying to make as much fuss as possible about childhood bereavemt and music for coping and wellbeing. See douglasmacgregormusic.com/so…
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Tune in to any UK Radio station at 10:59 for the #MentalHealthMinute
💙#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek starts today, and we’ll be kicking it off with the 2020 #MentalHealthMinute at 10:59!
Every radio station in the UK will play our message featuring @kensingtonroyal, @HKane, @dualipa, @anthonyfjoshua & David Tennant.
Don't miss it!⏰ @Radiocentre
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Great start to #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek speaking with @azizlisa on @LBCNews about the #MentalHealthMinute. Don't forget to tune in to any @global radio station at 10:59 today. 📻
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A useful, resource-packed update from Thrive LDN, focusing on Mental Health Awareness Week and Creativity & Wellbeing Week, both 18-24 May.
healthyldn.activehosted.com/…
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Songs of Loss and Healing by composer & guitarist @dugmacgregor is released on 22 May
Songs of Loss and Healing – music that speaks of love, loss, death, yearning for the irretrievable, and, also, hope crosseyedpianist.com/2020/05…
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"Music became my place to grieve. It allowed me to define the amorphous raw feelings I was yet to find words for. It gave them full expression, let me work through them."
@dugmacgregor talks of hope and healing through music after his mother's death.
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Very happy to have an article in @guardiannews @guardiang2.
Taking on taboos of #loss #grief, finding hope and #healing though #music.
Do have a read and share.
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Lovely piece in The Guardian this morning with composer and performer Douglas MacGregor. We spoke to him about his project @SongsofLoss when he performed as part of @LAHFArtsHealth's Creativity and Wellbeing Week in 2019.
I suppressed the pain of my mother's death for decades. Then I found a way to grieve theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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music and grief: "I suppressed the pain of my mother's death for decades. Then I found a way to grieve" (The Guardian)
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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I have this picture of my baby bro Alastair behind my bedroom curtains and say hello to him every morning/ goodnight every night.
Here is a wee podcast I recorded with @hrycpr and @dugmacgregor on the second anniversary of his death on the subject of grief and music
The first ever Songs of Loss and Healing podcast with creative force @alex_neilson (Alex Rex / @Trem_Bells) and @hrycpr (Creative producer, coach and facilitator). We talk music, grief, trauma, PTSD and healing.
soundcloud.com/user-73105683…
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Keep Flying with the Music by Jack - "I wrote this acoustic song about losing my dad when I was 14. Singing is my outlet and has helped me through a lot." See more artwork here 👉 buff.ly/35iqG5l
#ChildrensGriefAwarenessWeek #LostForWords
Songs of Loss and Healing retweeted
We're so pleased to have worked with @benbrooksdutton & many partners on this new resource for #ChildrensGriefAwarenessWeek 👧🏼👦🏽😢🎗📆
Advice from children, for children about managing grief
Thanks to everyone who contributed❤️
Download #LostforWords at
childhoodbereavementnetwork.…
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When I wrote my first book, my two-year-old son inspired most of its words. This time I’ve collated one for #ChildrensGriefAwarenessWeek
👧🏼👦🏽😢🎗📆 written in words and emojis, not by me, but by my son and lots of other bereaved children.
#LostForWords is out tomorrow.
