While organized sports, celebrities, and businesses have been rushing to try and make Los Angeles County whole again after the recent spate of wildfires, Guitar Center is playing its part, offering to replace lost musical instruments.
Trying to make a living as a musician is famously challenging, and if one were to lose a $2,000 guitar or a $6,000 piano in the recent blaze, one can only imagine what that might do to them.
Through the Guitar Center Music Foundation, the instrument supplier is inviting working musicians to apply for a special one-time grant to replace instruments and gear destroyed by the fires up to $1,500.
No cash is handed out, and applications will require information on the kind of equipment that was lost and an approximate value before a replacement can be furnished.
Applicants must be from the LA area. Also invited to apply are music programs and institutions.
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According to NME, applying institutions must conduct “in-school music classes in which the students make music, after-school music programs that are not run by the school, community music programs which offer music instruction to the community or music therapy programs in which the participants actively make music.”
Now valued at over $2 billion, Guitar Center was founded 66 years ago in Hollywood. Its first 8 locations were all located in LA and San Francisco.
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