Anonymous guitar donation makes a difference
The Crown of the Continent Guitar
Foundation received an electric guitar from an anonymous source
last year and presented it to a North Valley Music School student
for Christmas.
Foundation founder and chairman David
Feffer said the anonymous donor had learned the student, Simone
Craft, wanted an electric guitar for Christmas and Craft’s teacher,
Christian Johnson, knew exactly which instrument she wanted — a
Daisy Rock acoustic electric guitar.
The Foundation also provided Craft and
four other students with amplifiers, thanks to the same anonymous
donor.
“I was so grateful when I opened the
box,” Craft said. “I will never forget my excitement.”
Johnson said Simone is shy and
unassuming “until you start talking music.”
“Then her total focus hits you like a
ton of bricks,” Johnson said. “She sings like an angel and has
started writing her own songs already.”
Johnson said Craft had been learning
with “a bottom-shelf acoustic guitar that we have nursed along for
the last two years.”
“Since Simone received and started
playing her new guitar, she has taken her already considerable
skills to a much higher level,” he said.
“Helping student guitarists in the
Flathead Valley develop their talent is one of our core missions,”
Feffer said. “It was a thrill to see the smile on Simone’s face and
know that this gift might well help her achieve her dreams.”