GuitarTown Kids Launches Celebrity Art Guitars Benefitting Pediatric Cancer Research

GuitarTown Kids, a celebrity art guitar auction event has officially launched on CharityBuzz.com, featuring art guitars, exclusive, beautifully hand painted and celebrity signed Gibson Guitars, to benefit the T.J. Martell Foundation’s pediatric cancer research at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Celebrities from television, music and sports have all put their special touches on a series of one-of-a-kind painted Gibson guitars designed and painted by local artists who interpreted various ideas on to the canvas – in this case the actual guitar. 

Singer/Songwriter and actress Selena Gomez, all of the coaches from the hit show "The Voice" including Blake Shelton, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus and Adam Levin, Late night host Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien, Country music superstar Brett Eldredge, New England Patriot’s Rob Gronkowski, One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson.


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Also designing speciality guitars for the auction are All American Rejects, Temecula Road, Tegan Marie, The Revivalists, Shawn Hook, Grace VanderWaal, Jake Paul, Sky Katz, Isaac Brown,  Navia Robinson, Jason Maybaum, China Anne McClain, Ricky Garcia, Lain Attridge, Emery Kelly, R5, James Arthur, Charlie Put, Los Angeles Laker Julius Randle and American Professional Boxer Andre Ward are all among the many celebrities who have supported the project.

From a guitar painted to mimic Conan O’Brien’s famous red hair to another featuring the Hollywood landscape, each guitar is signed by the artist and a beautiful piece of art.

To bid on the guitars go to https://www.charitybuzz.com/support/guitartownkids. Details about each guitar and photos are listed on the auction site.


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The Gibson Foundation has partnered with the T.J. Martell Foundation on the art project which brings celebrity families together to design and paint regular size guitars with a focus on kids helping kids fight cancer.   Over 30 Gibson guitars are available in this VIP auction.

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