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Meanwhile, McGuire Hall played host to Matt Hurd and the Loyola College Chimes (whose set included Annie Lennox's "Walking On Broken Glass" and Scissor Sisters' "Take Your Mama Out") before the lighting ceremony, and afterwards to student bands OTIS is the Elevator, Jump the Gun, Hello Maybel, Bravo Romeo Bravo, and a performance by the Bleu Picnic Improv Group. Food was also constantly available in McGuire, ranging from bagels and chips to pizza to a somewhat obscene amount of Chipotle burritos. Participants were also supplied with copious amounts of water, Gatorade, and coffee.

They were followed by a mellow set performed by Matt Hurd, whose virtuosity on the acoustic guitar was worth sitting down and listening to. He specializes in melding pop favorites together into single songs, and for his first number he used verses from The Counting Crow's "Long December" as bookends for a series of verses extracted from other songs. He also played a good amount of original material, which struck a chord with the audience (comic drumbeat for the pun).