An award-winning music artist and advocate for the disability community performed her songs and discussed disability culture at a Feb. 6 event. Lachi showcased her songs “Far,” “Dis Education” and ...
The song pays tribute to Judy Heumann, special advisor for disability rights under Obama, and illustrates a music career that embraces her partial blindness as a superpower: "Hiding my disability is ...
A new effort will open the gates of some of the nation’s most popular music festivals to more people with disabilities. The nonprofit Accessible Festivals says that it will make available a limited ...
Turning stigma into stardom, Lachi isn’t here to fit into the music industry. She’s here to blow the doors off, rhinestone the hinges, and make the whole building more accessible on her way out. The ...
Today, we're at the Berklee College of Music. Inside a small rehearsal room, a group of six musicians is running through an orchestral arrangement of Coldplay's "Yellow." It's Berklee's Music ...
Being a musician requires commitment and craft, including musicians with disabilities. The Music Inclusion Ensemble at Berklee College of Music aims to demonstrate the innovation and skill of these ...
Following last year's efforts in Las Vegas, which saw ASL carpet interpreters go viral, one of the music industry's biggest nights returned with a more accessible venue and a preshow unlike any other.
Over the past few years, the issue of disability representation and including more disabled talent in the film and TV industry has come under the spotlight and rightly so. Yet, insufficient attention ...
Many musicians with a degree in music performance share their knowledge through private teaching. Unlike our colleagues with music education degrees, we do not study learning disabilities or the signs ...