The music and the cause brought more than 200 people together at a concert Saturday night benefiting a Rapid City man who was a victim of an anti-Christian shooting spree in Colorado earlier this month.

Teens and 20-somethings crowded around the stage at the The Retired and Enlisted Association bingo hall for the fifth annual Rock Against Violence benefit. Everyone seemed to know each other, band members mingling in the crowd before and after their sets.

"Music touches many people in many different ways and to be able to enjoy music with other people is a great thing," said Adam Coop, member of No One of Consequence and friend of Dan Griebenow, who was shot in the neck while working at a missionary training center in Arvada, Colo.

After surgery in Denver earlier this month, Griebenow is recovering in Rapid City and spending time with family, friends and fellow musicians. He declined an interview, instead rushing around before the show started to help get things organized, then running home, saying he need to find clippers so he could shave some lightning bolts into his hair.

Seth Brian, a Rapid City local musician, opened the show, singing and playing guitar.

Other punk and alternative bands to follow were The Reddmen, Keyboards and Computers, Anamosa, Sonic Future, all Rapid City bands, and No One of Consequence from Scottsbluff, Neb. The Sioux Falls band Nodes of Ranvier headlined.

In previous concerts, Griebenow performed with his band, Burns the Retina, but this year he is on the receiving end of the fundraiser. In years past, the profits were donated to local anti-violence organizations.

Many of the band members who performed at the concert were friends of Griebenow and were glad to take part in the event.

"I feel if you have talents that are able to help out someone else's misfortune or just help out in general, it's great to use them," Coop said.

Seth McConnell of Rapid City, who organized the event, said he wasn't sure the show would happen this year because of all the time and effort it takes.

"But after Dan got shot, it just became the most important thing to a lot of us," he said. "We kind of put everything else on the back burner and concentrated solely on this."

In addition to the concert proceeds, there was a raffle drawing and T-shirt sales. This year, nearly everything was donated so there would be more proceeds for Griebenow. Many businesses donated merchandise and gift certificates, and TREA offered the concert location for free.

Once the profits have been tallied, McConnell hopes to have raised between $2,000 and $3,000. Previous concerts raised about $1,000, but with all the donations this year and the extra sales, he hopes to have raised much more.