AUSTIN, Texas — Mason Endres hugs a plush toy and closes her eyes Saturday in a hospital bed, days after an intoxicated driver crashed through barricades and struck her and others while fleeing police during South by Southwest.
The bruised and broken 18-year-old hears music that isn't coming from a radio, television or laptop. It's live from her bedside courtesy of Jared & The Mill — one of Endres' favorite bands.
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She requests "Just for Now," a ballad with emotional lyrics: "But for the record, you reminded me, reminded me that I'm not here alone ..."
The Phoenix-based band, in Austin for SXSW, visited Endres at St. David’s Medical Center to give her a private concert, since she couldn't physically attend the band's SXSW show on Friday. She's recovering from a broken nose and leg as well as a fractured neck.
"We played the songs she wanted to hear," the band's singer, Jared Kolesar, 23, told Mashable. "It was a very heavy feeling in the room because of everything she has been through — heavy and inspiring. Her parents were really emotional. She's just as much our friend as she is our fan. "
Kolesar met Endes at SXSW in 2013 when the band was performing on the street. They mingled then and have been in contact ever since. When the band played in Austin in September, Endres attended the show with friends.
Kolesar was down the road early Thursday morning when the crash happened downtown on Red River Street, so he quickly heard that the incident ended with two people dead and 23 others injured.
Endres' friends alerted the band to her injuries, and the band immediately decided to play a set for her at the hospital.
"It's always very humbling to see the effect your music has on the people who love it," he said. "She's doing good. She had to go into surgery a few times, but she's in pretty good spirits. She's on the road to a speedy recovery and we're very thankful for that."
How good are her spirits? Well, she did take a selfie (pictured, below) Friday, with the caption, "Still killing that selfie game hospital style ya'll."

Mason Endres, 18, took this selfie in her hospital bed and posted it to Twitter on Friday, a day after the South by Southwest crash.
Image: Mason Endres
The band played "Just for Now," "Love to Be Found," "Ides of Fall" and "Western Expansion," all of which you can listen to below:

The Austin Police Department confirmed to Mashable that the driver at fault was 21-year-old Rashad Charjuan Owens from Killeen, Texas, who was previously charged with driving under the influence in 2011.
A man and a woman, riding on a bike and a moped, respectively, were killed when Owens' vehicle struck them at 11th and Red River streets.
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