When the voice of Gwendolyn Sanford fills the immense room of Rosebud Coffee in Pasadena with a hymn to her lost home, the ambient hubbub of this Sunday afternoon ceases, a sign of special attention to the musician victim of the Eaton Fire, one of the fires, now 95% contained, which devastated Los Angeles at the same time as that of the upscale Pacific Palisades district, which was 72% contained. Now the fire has shifted to the northwest of the city, in the Castaic Lake region, where 30,000 people have been evacuated.
On the night of January 7 to 8, the artist and his family left their house in Altadena, surrounded by flames, and since then they have been moving from one accommodation to another. Despite the situation, the composer insisted on performing as planned, this January 19, at the Pasadena Neighbors’ Day.
-Scheduled for a long time, this third edition of the event, which brought together several hundred people, could have seemed out of place after the tragedy which devoured several streets of Pasadena (137,000 inhabitants) and wiped out a large part of the neighboring city. of Altadena (42,000 inhabitants), killing 17 people (out of a total of 28 deaths from the consequences of the fire) and destroying 10,000 houses in one night.
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