{"id":9121,"date":"2025-07-19T22:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9121\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:51:10","slug":"listen-to-why-these-londoners-love-monday-mornings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9121\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to why these Londoners love Monday mornings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What started with a handful of people singing songs 25 years ago has grown into a weekly gathering of sometimes 100 musicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Monday Morning Music Club, run through L&#8217;Arche London, is geared toward people with\u00a0developmental and intellectual\u00a0disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s emerged from the quarter century of weekly jam sessions is simple, and extends beyond learning lyrics and hitting the notes, participants explained to London Morning&#8217;s Andrew Brown when he popped by.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting from one of the club&#8217;s favourite songs, &#8220;the more we get together, the happier we&#8217;ll be,&#8221; participant Jim said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN | Hearing from the musicians will make you feel good too\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>London Morning25 years of inclusive music making<\/p>\n<p>The Monday Morning Music Club is an inclusive space that let&#8217;s everyone share the joy of music. This year the Monday Morning Music club is celebrating 25 years, and London Morning Host Andrew Brown stopped by a session to meet L&#8217;Arche music facilitator Laurel Martin and some of the singers.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Kim Apordo looks forward to the music she makes with the rest of the Monday Morning Music Club participants.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/kim-apordo.jpeg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Kim Apordo looks forward to the music she makes with the rest of the Monday Morning Music Club participants. (Andrew Brown\/ CBC News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What started with a handful of people singing songs 25 years ago has grown into a weekly gathering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}