Danny Award recipient Erin Rosenfeld performs a song in American Sign Language
Danny Award recipient Cornel Hrisca-Munn plays the drums on stage
Brandon Mendenhall, guitarist and songwriter for the the Danny Award-receiving group The Mendenhall Experiment, rocks out on a guitar on stage
Danny Award recipient Devin Gutierrez plays the piano on stage

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Danny Award recipient James Ian sings on stage with his original music video playing in the background

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Magic from the 2024 awards

Photo of several of the 2024 Danny Award winners, posing together.
Photo of Lefty Williams playing the guitar and singing at the 5th annual Danny Awards. He is wearing a harness allowing him to pluck the guitar strings, to compensate for his incomplete left arm. Lefty is a white man with long brown hair, and is wearing a buttoned-down shirt.
Photo of Gifted Hands singing at the 2024 Danny Awards. He has shortened arms, braided hair, glasses, and is wearing a red vest.
Photo of The Resilient performing at the 2024 Danny Awards. They are a four-piece, with a guitarist, drummer, bass, and singer. Three members of the band are amputees--two with prosthetics, with the singer using a wheelchair.
Photo of Barabas playing the trumpet at the fifth annual Danny Awards. He is using a special apparatus to support the instrument, as he does not have a right forearm.
Photo of Ryth Lyon singing at the 2024 Danny Awards. She is sitting in a wheelchair, with long curly hair tied up with a ribbon.
Photo of Rachael Leahcar singing at the 2024 Danny Awards. She has blond hair, and is dressed in black, with a peach jacket.
Photo of the band Corevalay performing at The Danny Awards, a four-piece featuring a drummer, guitarist, bassist, and singer, who is using a wheelchair, centered at the front of the stage.

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