Winter Spotlight on CF Martin & Co. a.k.a. Martin Guitars
​Read the Martin Story HERE!

Representing the Martin Guitar Company, Sandy Siegfried, Mari Groller and Sophia, Sharon and Skip Beltz joined GITC at the 2019 Winter NAMM Show for our special breakfast event for sponsors, artists and advocates. We are grateful to Skip, Mari and Sandy for keeping the GITC flame burning brightly at Martin. If you ever travel to Nazareth, PA to tour the Martin Factory, you will not be disappointed. The history, the craftsmanship and the outstanding museum are well worth the journey! Learn LOTS more HERE.

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GITC Leadership & Martin Guitars
We want to give a shout out to all of you GITC Faculty Trainers, volunteers and leaders who are Martin Guitar lovers and owners. We know Martin guitars have played an important part if many of your lives. The first high quality guitar GITC's founder, Jess Baron ever experienced was getting her own Martin Herringbone D-28 for her 17th birthday. She had already been playing for 11 years. Her parents knew what to do.

Faculty trainer, GITC board member and Co-Director of Education, Joan Maute is playing her ’53 Martin 00-18 above and to the left. She affectionately calls this gem Scarface as a nod to all the wear and tear this treasured instrument has sustained over the decades! Please share YOUR Martin Guitar stories with us on our facebook page!

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WELCOME OUR NEW SPONSORS TO GITC!

Thanks to some love from our donor Bruce Robbins, a guitarist named Andy Goldfarb, and the inimitable luthier, Pepe Romero, Jr.,  GITC has received 59 beautiful very small Romero Creations soprano ukuleles for  our programs! We are so grateful to Andy, Bruce and Pepe for their generosity!

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One Million Guitars, 1MG, is a superb philanthropic effort by Israeli Singer-Songwriter and outstanding guitarist and composer, David Broza! This year, GITC teachers and students are playing 300 of his beautiful guitars in our programs!

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 Please meet this returning Sponsor! PEAK has generously contributed a great, portable D-12 guitar stand for each of our trainers and will be giving teachers a discount on getting their own stands for their classrooms.                 

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The work of GITC has been generously supported by CF Martin & Company for the better part of the past 19 years. Through the long term advocacy of Dick Boak and the enthusiasm and commitment of Chris Martin  as well as strong endorsement by the Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation,  GITC programs have been made available in 32 states, and hundreds of classrooms sport a Martin LX1 guitar (also knows as a Little Martin) to accompany student singing!  

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Meet A Young Voice from the Extended Martin Community
Sophia Beltz is young, musically passionate, and outspoken about the importance of making music. Daughter of Martin Guitar executive Skip Beltz and his wife, Sharon, you can read what Sophia has to say about expressing her views on women in music to the membership of the Guitars and Accessories Marketing Association (GAMA) at the 2019 NAMM Show, HERE.

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David Broza

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CEO and President Christian Frederick (Chris) Martin IV (above right), is the sixth generation Martin to head this continuously family-owned and operated American institution. To his left stands Dick Boak whose 42 year career with C. F. Martin & Co. began as a design draftsman. Over four decades, Dick's talents, kindness, humor and brilliance led him to serve in many diverse and creative positions there, leading to the formation of Martin’s Artist Relations Department and the conception of more than one hundred signature guitar collaborations with the top musical talents of our time. GITC owes much of what we have been able to accomplish in the schools to the vision and effort of these two men and their amazing team. Learn more about Dick's artwork HERE.

We thank and welcome UkeLikeThePros.com
for beginning to support our organization in late 2018. For two years now, instructor Terry Carter has rallied his troops to support music in high poverty classrooms with a super successful online matching campaign! This year they raised almost $9,000 for programs!

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 We encourage you visit all of our sponsors websites, below.
Simply click on each logo to learn about
​these phenomenal companies!