You probably wouldn’t expect to see flashing lights, a fog machine and an equipped stage with a run-way in the cafeteria on a Friday night.
On May 10, Seniors Jesse Gaunt and Kurt Kitzman held a benefit concert with their band, The Stolen Edge. Band members include Jesse Gaunt, Kurt Kitzman, Tristan Cumberledge and Jon Bittner.
For their senior project, they decided to raise money for the Beaver County Women’s Cen-ter. “We picked The Women’s Center because we like women,” Kitzman said.
The night started off with Outcast Haven, Gaunt’s solo acoustic per-formance. “It was kind of terrifying. All of those people standing in front of me and staring was intimidating,” Gaunt said.
Mr. Aaron Fitzpatrick and Joe Williamson, for-merly of rightAFTERnow, also played an acoustic set at the concert. “They were amazing,” Gaunt said. “They were a crowd-pleasing act.”
Another band who performed at the concert, My Thoughts in Color from Grove City, took the stage for over an hour. The two-man band got the crowd pumped up and ready for The Stolen Edge. My Thoughts in Color heard about the opportunity through one of The Stolen Edge’s guitarists and vocalists, Cumberledge.
The Stolen Edge played their set at the very end of the show. The band played their own original songs and also a few covers. “Jesse and Kurt’s senior project was more exciting than other senior pro-jects because I got to crowd surf,” Sopho-more Danny Conrad said.
“It was fun and we had a good time throughout the whole thing,” Kitzman said.
With more than 100 supporters, they were able to raise over $900.