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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Meg Eckhardt — ‘Music binds everyone together’
Description: Meg Eckhardt has a soothing alto voice. “Music speaks to a person’s heart,” she says in this week’s podcast.Eckhardt, who lives in Guilderland now, grew up listening to her English mother sing everything from folk songs to bar songs as she bustled about the house, doing chores. “There was music in the house all the time,” she said. Eckhardt did the same, raising her own children. Singing, she says, gives her a sense of freedom. “You don’t have to explain yourself,” she said. A registered nurse, Eckhardt became a massage therapist and used to work with hospi...