Pearl Jam Funds Guitar Lessons at Art House

0:00It's April 23rd, I'm Corey with The Story, and this is Kansas News today, your AI-powered local news. A grand view, Missouri non-profit called Arthouse just scored a grand from Pearl Jam's Vitality Foundation as their April pick. This community art spot on Main Street teaches guitar and piano for free, with drums coming soon. Pearl Jam shouted it out on Instagram to their 3.8 million followers, highlighting the free guitar program for local youth. The story loops back to founder Josh Scott, who grew up in Alabama. As a teen, he heard guitarist Mike McCready solo on a live, blasting from a cassette and begged his mom for a guitar. She grabbed one from Sand's Club, sparking a lifelong passion that led to his guitar effects company, JHS Petals in Kansas City, and eventually Arthouse, with his wife Alice. Scott dropped the personal essay in the JHS newsletter last December, called, This guitar changed my life. A reader passed it to the foundation, nominating Arthouse for the future days fund.

1:02Four months later, they got the nod. Arthouse runs on about $160,000 to $170,000 a year, hosting classes, concerts, and galleries for. Beginners. The grant covers part of their free music lessons. $45,000 funds, a full month for one kid helping put instruments in young hands, full circle like a perfect riff. The band that hoops Scott now fuels the next generation of players right here in Grand View. Loops like that don't need words. They just resonate.