As many may have wondered, who won the guitar in our Rock Out for Charity Guitar Giveaway? We are happy to say that we can now update everyone on the results of the raffle. Who won the Ibanez Paul Stanley PS60 Iceman???
The original plan was to announce the winner to the public on the same day of the drawing which was Nov. 30th 2023. However, after contacting the winner we decided to wait a bit longer as to not ruin what sounds like it was a great Christmas surprise.
Many supporters and ticket holders will remember that the purpose of this raffle was to put the proceeds towards our local middle school guitar club, and thanks to the strong support of area residents we were able to do just that.
In what was a bonus to us, we found out upon contacting the winner, that the guitar was in fact going to the ticket holders teenage son. Aside from our normal concert coverage and musician interviews we are also very active in supporting young musicians in Texas and surrounding areas.
Finding out that the guitar was in fact going to a young musician made the raffle all the more worth while. Upon contacting our ticket holder we found out that the young man named Kai had in fact asked for a new guitar for Christmas.
His Parent/guardian, Kathy, let us know that he even asked her recently if they had heard anything about our raffle, to which they were pretty sure they had not won at that point. Hearing the excitement in Kathy's voice reaffirmed that what we were doing was in fact worth while.
That being said our winner is a young man named Kai here in Texas. Kathy told us that Kai was speechless when Christmas morning finally arrived.
It was great helping a family during the holidays and even more helping an aspiring musician. As the parent/guardian of a teenage musician, Kathy encourages other parents with kids who want to play music to, "Let them. It's a way of expressing themselves. It gives them the opportunity to be artistic and creative no matter the genre."
We learned from Kai who has been playing guitar for about a year that his current influences are James Hetfield of Metallica and Oystein Aarseth of Mayhem. The young man is not currently in a band but would love the opportunity to be in one, noting it as "a future dream."
Kai told us that he was hoping to get a guitar for Christmas but was not expecting one. We are very happy for both Kathy and Kai, and the rest of the family as the whole purpose of this raffle was to give back to kids.
Through everyones generosity and support we were able to provide the local guitar club and it's middle school members with both proceeds, instruments and instruments donated by residents of Corpus Christ. In total over $1ooo.oo of proceeds and instruments have gone to the kids.
As of Dec. 13th the middle school guitar club held their first meeting where everyone had an instrument. We would like to thank everyone once again for their support and congratulate our winner once more, never stop playing.
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