Hello! Half Access is participating in Project For Awesome 2018. Project For Awesome is a campaign by the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and is a time when online creators and their communities work together to spread awareness about their favorite charities and raise money for them. From Dec. 7 – Dec. 9 you can vote for Half Access to win part of the money raised. This would give us a huge boost moving forward in 2019 in terms of awareness and funding.
Check out our video submission below. Vote for Half Access and learn more at projectforawesome.com! As always you can donate directly to Half Access here. Let’s make live music accessible.
Playing Music with Disabilities
The Half Access mission is to make live music more accessible, and in most of our recent work we’ve focused on the experience of disabled fans attending shows. There’s another huge part of venue accessibility, which is making sure that disabled musicians can access venues. But, before playing shows comes learning an instrument, which can often look different for disabled musicians. I got the chance to interview a few disabled musicians to share their experiences with adapting how they learn and play their instruments in a way that works with their disabilities.
Access Interview – Josh Rosenberg on Festival Accessibility
Josh Rosenberg, 24, graduated from UMass Lowell in spring 2017 with a bachelor’s of music in music business. This year marks the first year he has been able to work only in the festival and live music industry, specializing in accessibility, without any side jobs. He’s worked at about 20 different festivals, some just once and some each year over the past four years.
Access Interview – Luciano Ferrara
Luciano Ferrara is a singer-songwriter from Albany, NY, who after several years as a solo artist, recently made the transition to full-band supported act, performing as Luciano Ferrara and the Ensuing Disaster. Also a creative writing student at SUNY Albany, he just finished his undergrad thesis on a book he is writing about lumberjack folklore. In this Access Interview, Ferrara talks to us about the unpredictability of type 1 diabetes and his experience with accessibility as a performer.
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