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Christmas comes early for music and youth charities
Dallas, Texas – For more than five decades, the late Arthur “Skip” Maggiora, namesake of the beloved Skip’s Music in Sacramento, was as essential to music-making in California’s capital city as the instruments he sold and the sounds they made. He not only sold guitars to “generations of aspiring musicians and countless weekend garage warriors,” as The Sacramento Bee once wrote, but Maggiora founded an annual summer youth program called Stairway to Stardom and its adult counterpart Weekend Warriors.
The man had two passions, says his son Creed: music and teaching. Because his was “a heart of gold,” says Creed.
Music programs and youth charities
That was evident just one week before Christmas, when 150 vintage guitars from Maggiora’s collection sold Tuesday at Heritage Auctions for $2,425,044, with the proceeds going to those music programs and youth charities Maggiora founded and championed before his death at 75 last year.