Should all the fun of experiencing live concerts and music festivals such as Stagecoach and Coachella be reserved only for fans who can hear?
Tracy Halmgean says no, and that’s when she goes to work. For the last seven years she's been coordinating sign language interpreters for both festivals under contract with festival promoter Goldenvoice.
"The music is just one part of all that goes on at a festival or a concert," said Halmgean on Sunday during a lull before a couple of the interpreters she lined up for the weekend — Sara Groves and Jimmy Granger — were going to get busy signing at the Mane stage for three of the biggest shows of the day: Sara Evans, the Band Perry and headliner Blake Shelton.
People who are deaf or hard of hearing, she noted, also enjoy traveling, mingling with others in the desert, availing themselves of food and merchandise booths and the social networking aspects of the live music experience. The only element they can't access as easily as anyone else is what's being played and sung from the various stages.
It takes a sign language interpreter with a special set of skills to put music across to those who can't hear it. Unlike interpreting for students in a classroom, for patients in their doctor’s office or clients in a business meeting, working at a music performance becomes equal parts the technical job of getting words and phrases across and physical performance.
Halmgean said interpreters who are passionate about music — as she is — bring that passion to bear in their unusual line of work.
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