The story begins when I went to an outdoor concert at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The Gin Blossoms , a very 90's band were playing that afternoon ("Hey Jealousy" "Follow you down" "Found out about you."). Off to the left of the stage was a young lady doing sign language to the songs they were performing. I had never seen this before and immediately loved the idea. I found my eyes almost more drawn to her than the charming lead singer. Robin (the lead singer) began to bring her into their performance more by dancing with her and getting her to play tambourine between lyrics. Ever since this concert the idea of helping the deaf experience music has been a fascination of mine. I truly believe in the power of music. I feel that anything that helps those who can't hear to still feel and understand music is important. I'm happy to say that this is becoming more and more of thing. For example, singer Sia did it on SNL and Ingrid Michaelso...
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