Songs of Loss and Healing

Exploring the healing potential of music in grief with engagement with the arts, community and research.

[Songs of Loss and Healing @SongsofLoss]

Watch this to make your evening better!
An absolutely stunning version of Farther Along @AliRobertsMusic an Burd Ellen released on #NationalGriefAwarenessWeek .
Full video: https://t.co/OPvyujPJX2
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[Songs of Loss and Healing @SongsofLoss]

A very meaningful and moving conversation with @dugmacgregor @RobinHewings, @deborahbowman and @andy_nazer about loss, bereavement and coping for the @ThriveLDN podcast Act On.
Listen below.

[Thrive LDN @ThriveLDN]

Our next #ActOnPodcast episode, Act On: Bereavement, is out now.

Hosted by @RobinHewings from @EndLonelinessUK, with guests @andy_nazer, @deborahbowman & @dugmacgregor.

For more info & to listen: https://t.co/qDKAKU4vom

Or subscribe via Soundcloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

[Winston's Wish @winstonswish]

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 👉 https://t.co/nSUeTJ3irz

[Douglas MacGregor @dugmacgregor]

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: https://t.co/98J9qrWRRd

#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2020

[Douglas MacGregor @dugmacgregor]

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."

[Songs of Loss and Healing @SongsofLoss]

A piece of music about reconnecting to a lost loved one premiered on @FRUK

"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."

[KLOF Mag @klofmag]

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. https://t.co/E2Q2keQjts

[Douglas MacGregor @dugmacgregor]

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: https://t.co/xaMMzGr9Yu

#mentalhealthawarenessweek2020
#CreativityandWellbeing
#musicheals

[Douglas MacGregor @dugmacgregor]

Out tomorrow! 100% revenue to #fundraise for @winstonswish to give bereaved children hope.

Preorder here:https://t.co/98J9qrWRRd

#mentalhealth #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2020
#musicheals

[Songs of Loss and Healing @SongsofLoss]

Looking forward to this!

[Dr Radha @DrRadhaModgil]

🙌🏻👏👏🙌🏻 @SalfordUni

[Douglas MacGregor @dugmacgregor]

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
https://t.co/QmxZI1QVL6

[Douglas MacGregor @dugmacgregor]

"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:
https://t.co/QmxZI1QVL6

Album out tomorrow, all revenue to @winstonswish Pre-order: https://t.co/98J9qrWRRd

[Douglas MacGregor @dugmacgregor]

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 https://t.co/wauQPeKzE1

[Jon Salmon @jonsalmon]

Tune in to any UK Radio station at 10:59 for the #MentalHealthMinute

[Jon Salmon @jonsalmon]

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. 📻

[Adrian Clark 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 @adrianclark1]

A useful, resource-packed update from Thrive LDN, focusing on Mental Health Awareness Week and Creativity & Wellbeing Week, both 18-24 May.
https://t.co/erG4IYVVgf

[Fran Wilson 🎹🖋 @CrossEyedPiano]

Songs of Loss and Healing by composer & guitarist @dugmacgregor is released on 22 May

[Songs of Loss and Healing @SongsofLoss]

@Lucy_Selman @winstonswish thanks, look forward to it

[Songs of Loss and Healing @SongsofLoss]

Album out next Friday!
With the release, am raising awareness about childhood bereavement / use of music in grief. Also donating 100% of revenue for pre-orders / two weeks of sales to @winstonswish who do fantastic work with bereaved children.
Pre-order:
https://t.co/FGyIbGWlB1

[Songs of Loss and Healing @SongsofLoss]

The fantastic Tia DeNora talking about music and wellbeing
https://t.co/HNvVBPsMhO

[Songs of Loss and Healing @SongsofLoss]

Epic sounding duos from the indomitables, @tobyhaymusic and @DavidIRobertsUK. Recorded in the beautiful @CapelYGraig, with no doubt with the hospitality of @aviallenavi adding subtly.

A feel good purchase: All proceeds to @tyhafan children’s hospice

https://t.co/fOZawbS9fH

[Cruse Bereavement Support @CruseSupport]

"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.

https://t.co/5pwdIDRvW0