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Friday, January 11, 2008

Video: Benefit concert at the Jefferson Center

Video by Evelio Contreras and Seth Gitner

"Nothing can stop us," sang Daniel Cundiff of SunKing!, a Magic Twig Community member. "Why would you want to?"

Those were the first words of the first song Wednesday night, as SunKing!, the Young Sinclairs and the Sad Cobras played a show at Roanoke's Jefferson Center to raise money to replace lost equipment. At least 120 people were there, most at $5 a head, to help out.

Doug Cheatwood, whose band The Bastards of Fate lost all its equipment, was glad to see the support, as well as friends' and associates' quick response to the fire's aftermath.

"If there hadn't been such a large response, it would've been hard to get up the courage to continue," said Cheatwood, whose band already had to cancel one show, and will have to work using borrowed instruments for now.

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