A gift for a kid that really lasts...

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JazzMando What's New - Tis the season for giving, and we have a great cause for you to consider. The Mandolin Cafe website is on course to collect donations for two great Mandolins for Kids opportunities, the California Bluegrass Association's Kids on Bluegrass (http://www.kidsonbluegrass.com/) (mandolin program) and the Cool Mandolin Company Cool Mandolins for Kids (http://www.mandolincafe.com/mandolinsforkids/cool.pdf), two exceptionally well run programs that require accountability from instrument recipients and need instruments for mandolin lending libraries.

Details on how you can be a part of these worthy benefits are on the website, donating an instrument that is player-ready, one that needs attention, or simply giving a cash donation. We've enjoyed collecting for JazzMando sponsor Cool Mandolin Company the past two months; we donate $10 for each autographed copy of "Getting Into Jazz Mandolin (http://jazzmando.com/gijm_20835bcd.shtml)" sold in the JazzMando Merchandise Center.

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Contribute today: Mandolin Cafe Mandolins for Kids campaign. (http://www.mandolincafe.com/mandolinsforkids/)




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[Scott Tichenor]

Ted, thanks for your support of this program. Your donations to the Cool Mandolin Company associated with your new jazz method book, in addition to being very generous, were really the catalyst for this. Sometimes a good idea is so obvious, but yet I'd missed it.

Now if we could only find a way for those banjo, fiddle and guitar sites to do the same, but we'll let them solve that problem.