-
Loudoun Now: New Series to Premiere in Loudoun Classrooms
August 31, 2022 Team Kentron, a new original Sci-Fi children’s series premiers in Loudoun County Public Schools this week. The series was created by A Place to Be music therapy working with Lindsay Orme, the coordinator for social and emotional learning for the school division. Tom Sweitzer, co-founder and creative director with Middleburg-based A Place…
-
People: ‘Outer Banks’ ‘ Chase Stokes Lands Lead Role in ‘Music Got Me Here’, Based on Inspirational Real-Life Story
June 9, 2022 Chase Stokes is headed to the big screen! The Outer Banks star, 29, has landed his first starring role in the new feature film Music Got Me Here, based on the inspiring real-life story of how determined high school music teacher Tom Sweitzer used music therapy to help beloved former student Forrest Allen (Stokes) recover…
-
Classical Voice: A New Documentary Reveals the Healing Power of Music
November 30, 2020 Is it a music miracle, or simply science? It is both, although there is nothing simple about Forrest Allen’s arduous emergence from a traumatic brain injury that had silenced his singing voice at age 18 and left him unable to utter a sound or walk for almost two years. Emmy and Peabody…
-
Loudoun Times-Mirror
Sep 21, 2020 “The Land of Music,” a new animated children’s show produced by Loudoun-based arts therapy nonprofit A Place To Be, launched on the organization’s YouTube channel this week. APTB officials describe “The Land of Music” as a program that will help children pre-K through fifth grade “process the changes brought on by COVID-19 and…
-
Will To Survive Documentary Airs To Film Fests Worldwide
January 5th, 2019 A Mother’s Will, the documentary based on a mother taking the stage in A Will to Survive, an A Place To Be rock opera based on her son’s suicide. The award-winning documentary has been accepted to seven film festivals to date from Australia to Canada, Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and…
-
Winchester Star: ‘A Mother’s Will’ encourages teen to reach out for help
September 10, 2018 WINCHESTER — If any good could come from the very worst thing a mother could imagine, Ann-Charlotte Robinson meant to find it. “A Will To Survive,” a stage play, is the result. Through spoken word and song, it memorializes Will Robinson, Charlotte’s son, who died by suicide in 2016. The piece, co-written…
-
NBC: Music Therapy Helps Man Regain Voice After Snowboarding Accident
October 20, 2017 Watch the video
-
Washington Post: Snowboarding accident robs a Virginia man of his voice. Music helps bring it back
August 2, 2014 Friends draped arms across one another’s shoulders and swayed as they listened to Forrest Allen sing. Some joined in softly, not wanting to drown him out. Some blinked back tears. They never expected him to survive the accident. They knew the effort it took that afternoon for Forrest to sing each note…