Drumming It Up For Health

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – Students at the Mississippi University For Women are drumming it up for health.

MUW music therapy majors, along with local music therapists were invited to participate.

University of Kansas Music Professor Bill Matney hosted the day long workshop at Cochran Hall.

Matney is a percussion expert and board certified music therapist.

He spent the day showing students and professionals how to connect with percussion instruments and more ways to learn how to play them.

He spent the day showing students and professionals how to connect with percussion instruments and more ways to learn how to play them.

“We want to provide the best quality services to our clients. We want to be able to help them reach their full potential and percussion accessible. Percussion is mobile, is easy for us to take with us from place to place, session to session, and they are very easy to learn. Everybody from every skill level can play percussion instruments, so this is a wonderful way for us to immediately engage our clients in music and to be able to create a musical relationship together,” MUW Assistant Professor of Music Therapy, Elizabeth Haley.

Students in the program graduate with a Bachelor of Music, Concentration in Music Therapy.