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OAKLAND — The annual Warming Up for Christmas guitar concert will again benefit the ShineOnCass Foundation, the organization announced.
The concert will be at 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at Williamson Auditorium, Lawrence High School, in Fairfield.
The concert, presented by Benton musician Steve Fotter, has raised more than $100,000 for local charities, including $12,000 for last year for ShineOnCass community programs.
The foundation is in honor of Cassidy Charette, of Oakland, who died in October 2014 in a hayride accident.
The three-hour concert will include a variety of Christmas music, including rock, blues, jazz and folk, and features performances by Fotter’s 85 guitar students and musical friends.
In Charette’s honor, the foundation is also helping to fill Christmas boxes of clothing and gifts for more than 1,700 financially disadvantaged children in Maine through the Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderer’s Christmas Program. Concert attendees are asked to bring new unwrapped items to the concert or drop off gifts at Animal Hospital of Waterville, 20 Washington St., Waterville.
The concert will also include a raffle for an electric guitar, donated by Down Home Music Shop, and a handcrafted blue afghan Cassidy blanket.
The ShineOnCass Foundation was created by the Charette family to educate, inspire and empower youth to continue Charette’s passion for caring for others through volunteer charitable activities. Some of the programs created in her honor and supported by the foundation include Cassidy’s Kitchen, an outdoor kitchen at Hart to Hart Farm & Education Center in Albion; a student-led service program, Cassidy’s Kids, at Mount Merici Academy in Waterville; ShineOnCass mentoring programs at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine; girls youth soccer mentoring programs and annual $3,000 ShineOnCass Scholarships and Service Awards at Messalonskee High School.
Concert tickets can be bought online at Eventbrite.com (search Steve Fotter)m ir at Down Home Music Shop in Fairfield and Animal Hospital of Waterville. Limited tickets will be available at the door.
For more information, on the ShineOnCassidy Foundation, email shineoncass@gmail.com.
