• Dedicated to enriching the lives of children,
families and communities through music.
• Provides instruments, lessons, scholarships and the gift of
music to thousands of children.
• Sponsoring programs in high school shops to build instruments
for younger students.
• Fostering confidence, harmony, and sense of self through the
joyous gift of music.
www.andymackie.org
Wednesday, October 20, 2004- Andy Mackie worked this summer to finish
150 stringed instruments he is donating to area schools for their music
departments.-PT Leader
Andy teaching 1st graders to play instruments he built.
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AN INSTRUMENT
DROP OFF AT CROSSROADS MUSIC
2100 Lawrence Street.
Port Townsend, WA. 98368
Sarai, Andy & Dan
Andy Mackie receives a new Taylor Guitar generously donated by an anonymous Crossroads Music customer
To donate funds please make checks payable to:
Andy Mackie Music Foundation
c/o JCEF
PO Box 967
Chimacum , WA. 98325
www.andymackie.org
Andy can be reached by phone at
(360) 316-9556
History
Through more than 10 years of dedication, the Andy Mackie Foundation
(est. 1996) has enriched the lives of children, families & communities
through music. The Foundation provides instruments & lessons to
children to foster confidence and a sense of self. The Foundation also
encourages children to perform in fundraising concerts which, together
with grants & donations, provide the money for instruments, materials,
lessons & scholarships to graduating seniors.
Andy has taught more than 12,000 children to play harmonica, mostly
in public schools. His efforts were recognized in 2005 at the Northwest
Folklife Festival where he set the Guinness World Record for the largest
harmonica band ever to perform in one place.
His foundation has also helped more than a thousand children to play
stringed instruments and has awarded over 75-$500 scholarships to graduating
high school seniors to be used toward continuing education. Currently,
5 high school shops in Clallam, Jefferson & Kitsap counties are
building instruments for classes of younger students.
Music is Andy’s gift to the world. Please help the Andy Mackie
Music Foundation continue to touch countless young lives with the joyous
gift of music, along with the lasting confidence and harmony it bestows
in children’s lives. --andymackie.org
September 19, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Guinness Certifies Harmonica Ensemble
PORT HADLOCK, Wash. -- The new official Guinness world record for the
world's largest harmonica ensemble is 1,706, set at the Northwest Folk
Life Festival in Seattle on May 29.
Washington State University Jefferson County Extension educator Robert
Force, who helped organize the effort, says he has received official certification
of the setting of the new world record from Guinness World Records LTD
in London.
After reviewing documentation that included videotapes, photographs and participant registrations, Guinness certified that 1,706 people participated in the harmonica ensemble. The new record is more than double the previous record of 851 participants held by a Polish group.
Jefferson County 4-H leader Andy Mackie lead the ensemble at this year's Folklife Festival in playing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" continuously for 13 minutes, 22 seconds.
"This is not only a dream come true for Andy Mackie, but for the many kids he has reached through 4-H and the schools over the years," says Force. "And everyone who registered and participated can now rightfully claim to be a Guinness world record holder."
Mackie is an icon on the Olympic Peninsula for his work through 4-H and local school programs in teaching kids not only how to play but how to build their own guitars, dulcimers and other instruments.
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CONTACT:
Robert Force
WSU Jefferson County Extension
360-379-5610, Ext. 212
http://cahenews.wsu.edu/reportertools/news/2005/guinness-certifies-2005-09.html