A young man gets up on stage at an open mic night in Denver– and forgets the words to his song. That’s a scenario that’s probably played out hundreds, if not thousands of times in Colorado. But this night – this song, is different. Jacob Garrett spoke with Youth on Record about how music helped him cope with being a survivor of the 2012 Aurora Theater shooting, as well as his troubled home life.
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