Thanks, Nigel. the schools I'm working with are in the most needy areas....lots of crime and poverty.

The programs now include 80 kids a semester....three classes with 20 guitars, cases, tuners, Zoom recorders, etc, in each classroom and one class that is bussed into the original school to utilize the equipment. I give away a guitar to the best student in each class at the end of the semester.

My goals are very simple. If I get one kid to realize that there is a world out there of beautiful music, art, graphics...anything in the creative and/or intellectual fields...anything other than what many have known to this point I'll be one happy old man.


Russ