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Evergreen Speech & Hearing Clinic and Oticon presented the third annual "Turn It Down, an EAR-responsible concert" on Saturday, May 17th at the Kirkland Teen Union Building (K.T.U.B.), in Kirkland, Washington in celebration of Better Hearing and Speech Month. This unique, fun and impressionable concert brought over 250 concert-goers to the all ages venue.
This year's event had a number of talented artists promoting hearing care, including Portugal The Man, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, and Man Down Medic. The staff of Evergreen was once again amazed at how in-tune musicians are with their ears and how important hearing safety is to them.
Each admission ticket to the EAR-responsible concert included free earplugs donated by The House Ear Institute, and the knowledge that all funds gathered at the door and through raffle ticket sales would go directly back to the teen center to obtain a safer sound system for the venue, including a sound limiter. The event raised $1,614 toward a safer venue for K.T.U.B.
Also available at the concert was a room set up for custom molded earplugs and ear buds at cost. During the three-hour period the impression room was open, the audiologists of Evergreen Speech & Hearing Clinic had 17 people take advantage of this great opportunity, including musicians, sound engineers, singers, DJ's and record label employees.
Local musicians, along with the audiologists from Evergreen Speech & Hearing Clinic emceed the evening. With the help of the sound engineer the event was successfully kept "turned down" to 100dB maximum. Concert-goers could see the sound level was lowered through live speech mapping projected on the wall. From the entrance to the exit, attendees were surrounded with education and awareness about hearing loss, a perfect platform during Better Hearing and Speech Month.
Information was on hand for concertgoers to grab during the event or on thier way out from Oticon, The House Ear Institute, Westone, Grammy U, and more.
Submitted by:
Jody Norwood
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