On November 8th, the Infinite Music Foundation (IMF), in association with HarvestMoon Inc., staged an amazing benefit concert at The Historic Monday Club in San Luis Obispo, featuring two-time Grammy Award winning guitarist Laurence Juber. The event raised enough money to help establish a local chapter of Guitars in the Classroom (GITC) and firmly establish IMF as a new charitable organization with a grassroots philosophy devoted to providing musical access for kids.

In addition to the standing room only concert, a silent auction featured a guitar donated by local maker National Reso-phonic that brought in $2,800 on its own! In keeping with IMF’s mission of music education, Laurence Juber conducted a well-attended guitar workshop at Lightning Joes Guitar Heaven, an Arroyo Grande guitar store, and also performed at a local school assembly for the kids benefiting from the GITC program.

Thanks to all who attended our inaugural concert and for your continued generous support of our efforts to “say it with music.”

“The Infinite Music Foundation was thrilled to have Laurence Juber kick off our foundation’s inaugural concert and bring Guitars in the Classroom to San Luis Obispo,” said Infinite Music Founder and Executive Director Sarah Mason. “Our foundation’s mission is to provide musical access for children, and Laurence Juber, as an Artist Advocate with Guitars in the Classroom, was the perfect alliance. The concert was a sell-out!””

For young children, music and art stimulate brain and cognitive development. As youth develop, arts participation further cultivates fundamental life skills linked to social and academic success such as self-expression, cooperative learning, discipline and creative problem solving.

The experience of music educators and music students across the country suggests that music provides substantial benefits to the broader society at large and to nurturing the whole child. Music may be the magic key that keeps students from dropping out of school, inspires them to excel in other parts of their life, and creates a platform for global citizenship. Music education should be considered a critical component of every child’s education.

It's a universal language
  that has no borders or boundaries;
It evokes a spectrum of emotion,
  both sorrow and great joy;
It can turn the most ordinary moments
  into transcendent experiences, and
Give voice to those matters of heart and soul
  where words so often escape us.

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PRP Companies

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Jack Hutchinson Videography

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Nancy Crawford

Vina Robles Winery

National Reso-Phonic Guitars, Inc

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