On Sunday, August 5^th, Music Canada introduced the Three Rs Music Program at the second annual Sawdust City Music Festival in Gravenhurst, Ontario. The new program, which is rescuing gently used instruments, restoring them to fully-functional condition, and then reuniting them with students in publicly funded schools across Ontario, will be fully operational this Fall.

Instruments were collected from artists and concert-goers at Music Canada’s booth in the festival’s Vendor Village at Gull Lake Rotary Park. Among the collected instruments were acoustic and electric guitars, as well as ukulele, fiddle, flute, and snare drum.

The instruments will be restored by Currie’s Music, a local vintage music and repair shop. Once the instruments are fully-functional, they will be made available to publicly funded schools in the Gravenhurst area.

Music Canada would like to thank all the festival attendees who generously donated their instruments. Additional opportunities for instrument donation will be announced soon.

On Sunday at our Kids Zone we collected a bunch of instruments for @music_canada! They are paying for @curriesmusic to repair them and then donate them to @gateway2muskoka schools! #sawdustcitymusicfestival2018 #discovermuskoka #gravenhurst #mymuskoka #instrument #repairs

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Hello #Muskoka! Attending the @sawdustcitymusicfestival this weekend in Gravenhurst? Check out our Three Rs Music Program booth at Sunday’s Kids Zone and Music On The Barge programming! #SawdustCityMusicFestival #musiceducation

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