{"id":2447112,"date":"2019-08-02T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/country-singer-performs-in-snowmass-after-califronia-shooting\/"},"modified":"2019-08-02T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T04:00:01","slug":"country-singer-performs-in-snowmass-after-califronia-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/country-singer-performs-in-snowmass-after-califronia-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Country singer performs in Snowmass after Califronia shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Thursday night just after 6:30 p.m., the smooth vocals and country melodies of McKenna Faith sounded off the buildings in and around Snowmass Village Mall.<\/p>\n

Through a mix of classic covers and originals, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter worked to connect with the crowd gathered at the Fanny Hill stage, encouraging attendees to sing along and to \u201cmove their fannies\u201d as she danced on stage with her three bandmates.<\/p>\n

For most attendees, it was another summer night spent in Snowmass Village at the town\u2019s Thursday free concert series.<\/p>\n

For Faith, the night had a little more significance.<\/p>\n

Yes, it was her first visit to Snowmass. Yes, it was part of one of her biggest countrywide tours yet.<\/p>\n

But it was also her first performance since she sang at the Gilroy Garlic Festival last Sunday, where a gunman opened fire on the California food fest crowd, killing three people and injuring a dozen others.<\/p>\n

Neither Faith nor her bandmates and tour staff were injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really terrifying experience because you don\u2019t get out of bed in the morning and think that\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Faith, a northern California native, said of the garlic festival shooting.<\/p>\n

On a couch in the large, white artist\u2019s tent behind the Fanny Hill stage before her Snowmass show, Faith recounted what she and her band members experienced in Gilroy just five days before.<\/p>\n

Faith had just finished her set at the garlic festival and was talking with some of her friends in the audience when she heard popping noises.<\/p>\n

\u201cGunshots aren\u2019t the first things you\u2019d assume and I kind of ignored it because I was like if they were (gunshots) people would be freaking out,\u201d Faith said. \u201cBut then I heard this guy yelling, \u2018Gunshots! There\u2019s a shooter!\u2019 and we looked up and there was a huge crowd of people running toward us.\u201d<\/p>\n

As soon as she heard the man yell, Faith echoed his warning to her band, yelling for them to run. She remembers her whole body trembling.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing the looks on peoples\u2019 faces and like people getting trampled was so terrifying because you don\u2019t really know, they\u2019re saying there\u2019s an active shooter and you don\u2019t really know where is safe,\u201d Faith said.<\/p>\n

To get out of the area and to a safe space, Faith said she and the crowd had to hike out of the area on a trail to a nearby school. Her grandparents eventually picked up Faith and her band from the Gilroy area, as she said no one was allowed to drive out of the festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t get our van until yesterday (Wednesday) so we didn\u2019t know if we were even going to make it up here,\u201d Faith said.<\/p>\n

When asked how she mentally prepared to finish the rest of her summer concert tour after going through such a traumatic experience, Faith said she tried to decompress most of Monday and did most of her processing of the garlic festival shooting Tuesday, which was her hardest day.<\/p>\n

But although Faith said she has worried about a potential shooting incident happening during one of her festival or concert performances at times, and that she has thought about the garlic festival shooting every day since it happened, Faith also said she doesn\u2019t want it to affect her decisions moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s out of your control. \u2026 You can\u2019t be scared to go out and have fun. That\u2019s what they (active shooters) want to do, they want to scare you so you can\u2019t enjoy things like this,\u201d Faith reflected about her experience at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. \u201cYou just have to hope it doesn\u2019t happen again and that you don\u2019t have to be a part of something like that again and to just keep living your life, really.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why after Faith and her band got their van, trailer and equipment back Wednesday from Gilroy, they made their way to Snowmass to perform Thursday night, as planned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to keep playing music because music is healing and I love it,\u201d Faith said. \u201cIt makes me feel better and I hope it makes other people feel the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday night, Faith said she and her band members had a ton of fun. She thought the energy of the Snowmass crowd was unreal, which helped her put on a high energy show and get her band back on track for the rest of the summer tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night was the perfect way to have a show after such a tragedy,\u201d Faith said of the Snowmass concert Friday evening after her performance at the Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. \u201cIt\u2019s scary what happened but no matter what we have to be positive and spread that energy through our music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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