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Ted Irvin Kids on Bluegrass Fund
This program began when a very beloved bluegrass man by the name of Ted Irvin died suddenly and unexpected of a heart attack. Ted and his wife Ida had been very involved in the California Bluegrass Association for many years and Ted’s love of the Kids on Bluegrass Program (as well as Ida’s) was well known. When Larry and Sondra Baker decided to start the Bluegrassin’ in the Foothills Bluegrass Festival in Plymouth, California, Ted not only offered them any help they might need but adamantly begged them to ALWAYS provide a place for the Kids on Bluegrass to perform. The following year, Ted suddenly passed away and his wife, Ida, asked the California Bluegrass Association to create a Kids on Bluegrass Fund in Ted’s memory. She then asked people who wanted to give flowers for Ted’s Memorial to instead please donate money to this fund. Ida’s hope was that the fund would continue and grow to help provide whatever was needed for the Kids on Bluegrass Program.
To Make a Tax Deductible
Donation
Please send check or money order payable to:
California Bluegrass Assoc.
Ed Alston-CBA Treasurer
P.O. Box 6954
Santa Maria, Calif. 93456
(In memo area print:
For Kids on Bluegrass Fund)
This past year, money from this fund has provided Kids on Bluegrass Tee shirts for the kids to wear at performance time, ice, juice, and snacks while the kids are working hard in rehearsal, and some of the fund was used to help get some of our Kids on Bluegrass to the I.B.M.A. in Nashville (2005) to perform at the special showing of Kids on Bluegrass at Fan Fest.
There is great hope that this fund will continue and many ideas at how this fund can help the Kids on Bluegrass program. Having a Kids on Bluegrass show at I.B.M.A., getting our Kids on Bluegrass out into the community to schools or other functions to present Bluegrass Music to others, as well as having the ability to provide for them at festivals are just some of the possibilities.