The concert starts at 4:30 p.m, and the pizza party starts at 4 p.m. This event is free.
When Ford heard Muncie Pride was teaming up with Spectrum, she was “all about it.”
Her performance will be the first time she has been to Muncie. Ford currently lives in Nashville.
Ford said she started out as a singer-songwriter, but began to learn more instruments — which led to the formation of her one-woman band.
"I’ve played drums in a few bands, but this one-woman band concept just sort of slowly became what it is and I just … think it’s really rad to get up there and be something different,” Ford said. “Folks really aren’t sure what to expect, and then using different pedals and trying to think about creative ways of stacking an arrangement of a song, you can just do crazy things as one person and I really love that.”
Ford said it is now hard to imagine doing her songs with a full band after doing them by herself.
“Seeing how the audience responds, and getting to know your equipment and just the way that it all comes together firsthand … I guess that’s like my pre-show routine,” Ford said.
Ford is looking forward to meeting people and getting to know what Muncie and Ball State are all about. She thinks college is a special time in life where people are opening up to new ideas and meeting a ton of people.
“It’s kinda like you’re never gonna get that moment in your life again that you’re gonna get in college. … College kids … they’re like the cutting edge of what’s next,” Ford said. “I would just like to be in environments, like cool headspaces with people that are really gonna challenge the way that I look at the world and take it in a new direction.”
Ford said most of her shows are in bars and nightclubs, where not everyone is necessarily there for her music. She says playing outside is great for the soul and it refocuses why the people are there.
She is a one-woman looping band, which means she plays phrases live, which are recorded to a pedal. After pushing a button, the recording loops.
“A looping band means you take songs and you stack recorded pieces live, so that enables me to play a guitar part and then over the top of it, play a bass part, and then over the top of that, play a lead guitar part,” Ford said. “If all that’s going, I don’t necessarily need my hands to play the guitar. It frees me up to play the drums with my hands.”
Kevin Wells, a junior actuarial science major and treasurer of Spectrum, is the coordinator for the event.
He contacted Robyn Ayres, a committee member for Muncie Pride, who has connections to Ford and helped them collaborate. This is the first time Spectrum has put on an event with a Muncie organization.
“We’re branching out and not just sticking with the same groups of people on campus that we always work with, and so that’s really exciting,” Wells said. “I’m also really excited about having Kristen here … she’s very, very talented.”
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