Name: Harmonies of Heart: Encouraging Jazz and Pop Student Acts for Senior Care Facilities
Start: 2025-06-05T14:30:00-0500
End: 2025-06-05T14:40:00-0500

Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the presentations you’d like to attend. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community June 4–7, 2025.

Thursday June 5, 2025 2:30pm - 2:40pm CDT

Classroom 105 - Legacy Building

There is a need for music in retirement homes, especially memory units. This presentation offers ideas that APME educators can adapt to encourage students – soloists or combos of any genre of music – to share their music with seniors in a way that brings joy to everyone.

Speakers

Brian Wansink

Professor (retired), Cornell University

My name is Brian Wansink, and I’m a retired Cornell marketing professor who has published best-selling books and 200-some journal articles. Now, as a later-life musician, I play sax in a Motown band (and in a Grateful Dead band), and I research how popular music can be used to encourage... Read More →

Thursday June 5, 2025 2:30pm - 2:40pm CDT
Classroom 105 - Legacy Building 3775 Central Avenue 129 Music Building Memphis, TN, 38111

Community Music, Pop 10!

APME Memphis 2025

Brian Wansink

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