{"id":2003,"date":"2010-02-17T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthologysd.com\/blog\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:28:42","slug":"the-six-string-circle-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/2010\/02\/17\/the-six-string-circle-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Six-String Circle of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Dave Good | San Diego Reader<\/cite><\/p>\n

\u201cSuzy Bogguss<\/strong> and I knew each other when we were teens,\u201d says Jessica Baron. \u201cI was a music teacher who gigged a little bit. Suzy was already an early celebrity. She would come through Chicago in her tour bus.\u2026 We got to be friends,\u201d she says, \u201cbecause we were peripherally part of the same music scene. Then, we lost touch for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessica Baron is founder and executive director of a national outreach called Guitars in the Classroom that is headquartered in Solana Beach. Suzy Bogguss\u2019s country albums reached platinum and gold sales in the \u201980s and \u201990s; to date, she has had six top-ten singles.<\/p>\n

Baron says that when she learned her old friend would be performing at Anthology, she reached out. \u201cI said the people who own that club [Marsha and Howard Berkson] support Guitars in the Classroom. And Suzy said, \u2018Well, let\u2019s do something. I don\u2019t know what, but let\u2019s put something in the evening.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

To date, Anthology has donated five pairs of tickets to Bogguss\u2019s February 18 concert with profits to benefit GITC, and a Martin guitar donated by a GITC supporter will be raffled as part of the event.<\/p>\n

Guitars in the Classroom has been active for more than a decade. Their website states that they have trained 9000 teachers in 29 states. Unlike other charitable music programs, GITC puts instruments in the hands of teachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a train-the-trainer model,\u201d says Baron. \u201cWe train the educators. We loan the teachers the guitar, and when they feel secure on the instrument, they give it back and we pass the guitar along to the next teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says that there are currently 100 local teachers enrolled in the program, which is evenly divided between Crown Point Elementary and Oak Park Elementary schools.<\/p>\n

Baron says that if an instructor wants to continue on as a classroom troubadour after the loaner guitar has been returned, he or she must purchase their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, you become a customer of the music-products business, which is how we get funded by NAMM.\u201d Baron says that NAMM, a trade association for music-product companies, has given them grant money for five years. \u201cWhen a teacher does purchase a guitar, there is a good chance that they will become a customer of a NAMM member business.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started the program as an experiment. It\u2019s just grown from there,\u201d says Baron.<\/p>\n

What: Suzy Bogguss<\/strong>
\nWhen: Thursday, Feb 18, 2010<\/strong>
\nWhere: Anthology<\/strong>
\nTickets: $7 – $38<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Via San Diego Reader<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dave Good | San Diego Reader \u201cSuzy Bogguss and I knew each other when we were teens,\u201d says Jessica Baron. \u201cI was a music teacher who gigged a little bit. Suzy was already an early celebrity. She would come through Chicago in her tour bus.\u2026 We got to be friends,\u201d she says, \u201cbecause we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[634,633,635,398,630,632,631],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-past-shows","tag-country","tag-country-music","tag-live-country","tag-san-diego-live-music","tag-suzy-bogguss","tag-suzy-bogguss-concert","tag-suzy-bogguss-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}