A 12-minute BBC South East Today Special Report on Lou's music project to help rehabilitate stroke survivors. (March 2006)
Interviews:
You can listen to a short podcast of an interview and extracts from Lou's performance in the 2008
Brighton Festival of World Sacred Music
at Royal Sussex County Hospital.
Hear Lou being interviewed, in 2005, for BBC Southern Counties Radio, Inside Lives. She discusses the healing
power of music and tells of how one particular patient, nearing the end of her life, provided Lou with inspiration for a new song.
Lou was interviewed by Amanda Hart in 'Soul Searching' for My Spirit Radio. Lou spoke about her music for healing, and 'unlocking the voice within'.
Mid Sussex Citizen
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Back from Research
Healing Arts Practitioner Lou Beckerman is extending her work with patients after returning from a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship in the United States to research 'Music as Medicine in Palliative Care'.
Lou spent six weeks visiting hospitals and hospices observing and sharing her own work as a community musician and sound and song therapist.
Earlier this month she was invited to a ceremony at the Guildhall where lady Mary Soames (pictured), daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, presented her with an engraved silver medallion.
Lou said,'I felt honoured to meet Lady Soames and to be able to tell her something of my work and travels.'
Lou has used the experience she gained in America to further her work in facilitating music projects in healthcare. In one of her current projects, 'Blue Skies' at the Martlets Hospice in Brighton, patients are being encouraged to write a song together which they will then be recording.
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust website contains details of Lou's six week
trip.
Lou Beckerman receives Churchill Medallion from Lady Mary Soames at the City of London Guildhall.
