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.”