Sign interpreters at this year's New Orleans Jazz Fest got a treat while they were translating the performance of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The Boss decided to join them for a moment and you see the result in a video below. Holly Maniatty and Edie Jackson even got Springsteen to sign along with them.
Finnish deaf rapper Signmark will perform tonight at the University of Minnesota. It's part of the school's Disability Services’ Deaf and Hard of Hearing Day. Read about his campus visit here.
A deaf teen will play in the marching band at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville this fall. KTHV-TV has this video report below. No captioning, but you can read part of the story here.
Some members of the deaf community say a new music video is an insult. The video created by Mark Nakhla uses the Kanye West and Jay-Z song No Church in the Wild . Nakhla says he has studied ASL for a couple of years and
utilized "American Sign Language shapes and sign language gestures." But the National Association of the Deaf says the video is "not an ASL interpretation in any sense, shape or form." Judge for yourself by watching the video posted below on DeafNewsToday.com.
Finnish Deaf rapper Signmark returned to New York City this week where he performed to a packed house. He uses sign language and a vocal interpreter to spread awareness of deaf music and culture through hip-hop. There's a summary of what happened here and a video of the event posted below on DeafNewsToday.com.
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