SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Oct 16, 2019
3 minutes
BY BEN PAYNTER
PHOTOGRAPH BY
BRIAN GUIDO
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
GORAN FACTORY
at Rise Interpreting, Sara Groves makes sure people who are deaf or hard of hearing can still rock out at music festivals like Stagecoach and Coachella. She and a team of more than a dozen nationally certified American Sign Language interpreters spend months preparing for concert season, studying performers’ mannerisms, predicting set lists, and memorizing lyrics while figuring out how to translate them into ASL. Groves estimates that Rise interpreters work 25 music events
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