The success of the seventh annual Hootenany had many moving parts, from the generosity of the venues to the hard work of the organizers and of course the musicians who donated their time and the audiences which filled every nook and cranny for most of the evening. Another of the special facets to the event was the raffle of a special guitar that was procured by Joe Pettit. He told me that night,how it came to fill a fitting place in the fundraising
The next part of the story comes Monday when I bumped into the lucky winner of that guitar who told me he received a very loud telephone call late Saturday night which woke him out of a sound sleep. He couldn’t hear anything except loud voices and louder music. Thinking it was a prank, he hung up and went back to sleep. The next morning he received another call wanting to know when his prize could be dropped off. Putting the pieces together, he remembered the phone call and discovered that his name had been pulled and the Hootenany committee had called to inform him. Tom Walt shared his proud photo of the guitar which he says will be much appreciated in his musical family.
