RISE Annual Benefit Concert

Photos by Wally Perez

The Wood Street Band played a mixed bag of covers and original songs for RISE’s annual fundraising concert at the Root Cellar Bakery on April 21. RISE held the concert in an effort to raise money for the RISE retreat, a small summer camp for incoming freshman, which plugs students into ministries on campus.

Biology senior Taylor Easter eagerly waits for her caricature portrait as art education senior Erin Beebe finishes up the sketch. Beebe was drawing portraits for $5 which was part of the RISE fundraiser.

A neon sign which reads “San Marvelous”, a play on San Marcos, shines on the wall of the Root Cellar Bakery.

Hannah Walker, geography resource and environmental studies senior, and Miranda Poklikuha, marketing senior, show off stickers supporting “The Wood Street” band after they finished their set.

Audience members flock around the stage at The Root Cellar Bakery as Lizzie Newland begins her set.

Guests gather inside as the Wood Street Band takes the stage.

Quinn Conley, 10, dances on one of the seats along with her sister nursing freshman Madeline Conley.

Education junior Meghan Horsley raises a hand to rile up the crowd during the Wood Street Band’s set.

Baristas Tyler Almanza (right) and Kaylee Evers (left) were serving customers all night during the busy event. Wine was a popular choice among patrons.

RISE was selling two kinds of t-shirts for the event. Grey shirts were $17 and blue shirts were $10. All proceeds go towards funding the RISE summer retreat.

Hannah Walker, geography resource and environmental studies senior, dances along to the Wood Street Band’s rendition of Drake’s “One Dance”.

Geoff Sloan, international relations junior and guitarist for the Wood Street Band, strums along to a cover of Bill Wither’s “Just the Two of Us” during RISE’s annual fundraiser concert.

The venue was packed throughout the evening and guests saw themselves conversing outside, buying t-shirts for RISE, or cooling off from the warmness inside Root Cellar.

Marketing freshman Brynlee Hill dances along to the Wood Street Band’s cover of Outkast’s “Hey Ya!” between a group of friends.

The Root Cellar Bakery was selling coffee, tea, beer and baked goods all night to guests who stopped by for the concert.

Meghan Horsley sings along with Geoff Sloan during their set.

Chanel Rector spray paints a public wall in the parking lot of Canopy while her friends waited out of view.

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