BOSTON (AP) — Taylor Swift is giving $10,000 and concert tickets to a Boston school for the deaf after a prank involving an online contest promising an on-campus performance by the Grammy-winning singer.
Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston was disqualified from the contest because many of the votes were from Internet pranksters who thought it would be funny for a school for the deaf to win tickets to a live concert.
The Boston Globe reports that instead, Swift and contest sponsors will donate a combined $50,000 to the school, and VH1′s Save the Music program will donate $10,000 in musical instruments.
Swift says every student at the school will receive a ticket to her next local concert.
Principal Jeremiah Ford tells the newspaper: “Are we the winner? Absolutely.”
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Information from: The Boston Globe, http://www.boston.com/globe
Gotta love her!!!! She knows how to do the right thing.
It would be great if they could track the a..hole who sent the email and make him do some quality time at the school doing something so he would not do such a stupid thing again.
Thats why I love Taylor Swift, she’s a great person!!!
Well played Taylor, well played.
Deaf does not mean you can’t enjoy music. There are some AMAZING deaf musicians out TL Forsberg is one such singer…Beethoven’s Nightmare is a band made up of all deaf musicians. NEVER underestimate the deaf and hard of hearing. I myself am hard of hearing (totally deaf in one ear and partially deaf in the other). I was a music major in college voice and electric bass.
Not sure how it was a prank… Just because they are deaf doesn’t mean they don’t feel it