Thanks to Patrick Sawyer and everyone at the Pisgah Banjo Company, along with everyone who bought a ticket at the annual banjo raffle hosted by Pisgah Banjo Company to benefit the IBMA Foundation’s Arnold Shultz Fund! A grand total of $26,500 has been raised to provide support for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in bluegrass and old-time music. Recipients of the 2026 Arnold Shultz Fund grant recipients are announced elsewhere in this publication.
“Thank you to the IBMA Foundation for administering these grants,” Sawyer said, “and last but not least, congratulations to Laurie Greenberg in New Jersey on winning the raffle! Laurie has supported the raffle for several years now, and we are happy to send this beautiful spalted maple Tubaphone to her.”
“Including the funds raised with the 2025-26 raffle, Patrick Sawyer and his team have donated a total of $137,320 to the Arnold Shultz Fund since 2021,” said past IBMA Foundation executive director Nancy Cardwell. “Their support and friendship are tremendously appreciated. The number of Shultz Fund grant applications continue to grow every year. Thanks to the Pisgah Banjo Company and other donors, the impact of these grants is increasing across the U.S. and internationally. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee endowment fund that supports Shultz Funds in perpetuity is also growing. This simply would not be happening if not for friends like the Pisgah Banjo Company, early supporter comedian/actor/musician Steve Martin, and other donors.”
Next year’s Pisgah Banjo Company banjo raffle to benefit the Arnold Shultz Fund will kick off in February 2027. Stay tuned to pisgahbanjos.com for more details!
RETURN to the April 1, 2026 issue of The Cornerstone.
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