PRS Guitars
1 Night,1 Show,1 Cause Benefit for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

Join PRS Guitars on Sunday, October 3 at Bourbon Street Baltimore to raise money for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. One really cool fundraiser is the live auction of custom painted PRS guitars. I asked Daniel Stuelpnagel, curator of the guitar collection, to describe the process behind creating these one-of-a-kind masterpieces.

Daniel: As an amateur guitar player, I am familiar with the assembly so I was comfortable removing the tuners, strings, bridge, plug jack and a few other accessories so that I could get tape and paint coverage on the body and have it look as much like a factory paint job as possible.  I used Montana spray paint, overlapping tape applications to create about five or six layers as you can see, in a geometric abstract pattern with many colors, and then I hit it with two coats of clear coat at the end, each application needs to dry for a day or two, so I spent a good couple of weeks just working on this about an hour a day, and then put it all back together and re-strung it and it was ready to go.  Close to the style I use for many of my paintings on canvas, of which I have done about five hundred over the years, and more than 70 exhibitions coast to coast, but this was my first guitar.

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From the official press release:

Sunday Evening, October 3rd Paul Reed Smith Guitars will again host the acclaimed One Night One Show One Cause Benefit for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Bourbon Street in Downtown Baltimore, Maryland.

Headlining One Cause, guitar prodigy Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers and the Derek Trucks Band along with storied vocalist Susan Tedeschi will bring their unique southern blues rock style to this intimate venue. After appearing on each other’s Grammy nominated albums in 2009, Derek and Susan are performing together only a handful of times this year, building anticipation for this performance - their only local engagement.

The Paul Reed Smith Band will also appear, joined on guitar by special guest, Dr. William Nelson, Director of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. A live auction featuring local artist embel-lished guitars will be hosted by Jon Levinson of Alex Cooper Auctioneers.

One Cause is the flagship benefit concert of PRS Guitars. Since 2000, PRS Guitars has raised over 2 million dollars for the Living with Cancer Resource Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The Living with Cancer Resource Program offers supportive care programming and edu-cation to patients and families, free of charge.

General admission $40. VIP admission of $100 includes open bar, food and access to VIP upper level viewing area. Doors open 7pm. All ages show.