Dear John & the Grand County Blues Society – THANK YOU!! You met us and our son on Wednesday night at Tara & Emily’s fundraiser. What an amazing event that was and such big hearts you have for wonderful people like Tara and her miracle baby Emily. We had a great time and the music was spectacular. It was an evening both my wife and I enjoyed immensely and Zachary absolutely LOVED listening to the music too. John must have found out about Zachary through Tara, because he approached us about what instruments Zachary likes to play. When we told John that Zach loves playing a toy keyboard and will do so for hours, he offered to get Zachary a professional grade keyboard through Guitar Center. We were speechless to say the least. Today, Sat. Oct. 9, we went to Guitar Center and met up with Clint who arranged for Zachary to take home a Yamaha PSR-E423!! When Zachary got to play it in the store he was so excited he could barely contain himself. Zachary has cerebral palsy and when he’s stimulated or excited he stiffens up. It was hard to hold him to let him play the piano, so we let him stand (with support as he can’t do it by himself yet) and he jammed! Clint is a standout guy and we got the keyboard home and Zachary has been in heaven. Thank you sincerely from the fullness of all three of our hearts! You have truly touched the life of our child forever. He sat upright and balanced today while using BOTH his hands to play the keyboard, a feat which is very difficult for him because of the Cerebral Palsy, but one which he was so motivated to do because of the keyboard. We recorded the entire experience and took lots of pictures. We would love to send them to you! Thank you again and we hope to hear from you!

-Nathan, Renee & Zachary Charlan