http://q103albany.com Albany's #1 Rock Station Sat, 25 May 2013 22:27:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://q103albany.com/eddie-van-halen-donates-75-guitars-to-school-music-programs/ http://q103albany.com/eddie-van-halen-donates-75-guitars-to-school-music-programs/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:22:04 +0000 Jeff Giles http://loudwire.com/?p=40652 Being in the school band just got a whole lot cooler for some of the kids in the Los Angeles area: Eddie Van Halen has teamed up with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation to donate 75 guitars from his personal collection to schools that don’t have enough funding to pay for instruments. For Van Halen, it was a simple case of giving back — as he put it simply, “Music education and families are dealing with the economic times, and I wanted to help them.”

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