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Sunday, 24 February 2013

How music helps children to deal with bereavement

Winston's Wish, a charity for mourning children, launched an initiative in December last year to help boys between 11 to 13 to deal, through music, the death of a parent.

As they speak, Riches, 29, turns their words into lyrics then, guitar in hand, and with the boys playing percussion, he helps them to work out a melody.
All of them write why they are here on a chart hanged on the wall.

They listen the recording of the final song, which is easy to remember. It has a chorus that says "hold on to your memories and don't let go," and a passionately percussion climax.

All of the boys are excited about their achievement, even Liam. He doesn't participates too much, but as he says: "I'm just going with my beat."

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