From Oskar Blues Brewery
Press release
CAN’d Aid Foundation’s TUNES Program Teams up with Asheville’s ArtSpace: Instrument Donation & Music Workshops with members of Steep Canyon Rangers
WHAT: The CAN’d Aid Foundation will host an instrument drop and music workshop for music students at Artspace Charter School, in Swannanoa, NC. Artspace is an innovative school that uses arts education and integration across the curriculum, to help students discover their talents. CAN’d Aid will donate 20 new acoustic guitars to augment the school’s music program. This donation will ensure that hundreds of students will have access to instruments and shape the school’s music program for years to come.
Three members of Grammy-Award Winning Steep Canyon Rangers (Graham Sharp, Nicky Sanders & Mike Ashworth) will provide a TUNES workshop featuring 90 minutes of hands on lessons in guitar, fiddle, banjo and percussion
WHEN: November 18th, 4 – 6 pm CAN’d Aid staff and will deliver the instruments, discuss CAN’d Aid TUNES program, followed by a 90 minute music workshop
WHERE: Artspace Charter School: 2030 US-70, Swannanoa, NC 28778
WHY: CAN’d Aid is a 501c3 nonprofit formed by Dale Katechis, soul founder of Oskar Blues Brewery, in 2013 following the Colorado flooding that devastated the hometown of Oskar Blues Brewery, Lyons, Colorado. What started as a response to the 2013 floods in Colorado has now raised and distributed more than $1,000,000 to small businesses, families and organizations across country. CAN’d Aid is the non-profit arm of Oskar Blues Brewery and has evolved into an irreverent nonprofit focused on diggin’ in and makin’ a difference where they CAN. Its “do-goodery” is focused on:
Towns – building strong communities
Tunes – for your eyeholes and earholes
Treads + Trails – get outside and get after it!
Love Yur Mama – save the blue marbleAbout Oskar Blues Brewery
Founded by Dale Katechis in 1997 in Lyons, Colorado, Oskar Blues Brewery launched the craft beer-in-a-can apocalypse with hand-canned, flagship brew Dale’s Pale Ale. Today, Oskar Blues is one of the fastest growing independent breweries in the country and operates breweries in Longmont, Colorado and Brevard, North Carolina, producing more than 150,000 barrels in 2015. The original canned craft brewery currently distributes to 44 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., as well as parts of Canada, Sweden, and the U.K.In 2013, Oskar Blues founded the CAN’d Aid Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that offers grassroots grants to those making a difference in the areas of community, the environment, music, and more. To keep up with all things Oskar Blues, visit oskarblues.com.
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