SFF offers custom Breedlove guitar

Sisters Folk Festival is raffling off a custom guitar as part of the annual JAM (Journey/Adventure/Music) fundraiser supporting SFF's cultural education outreach and programming in Central Oregon. Longtime sponsor and Bend-based company Breedlove Guitars has donated a beautiful custom concertina guitar. The raffle will be conducted in conjunction with the 27th annual Sisters Folk Festival happening Friday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, September 29 in Sisters, but raffle tickets can be purchased beginning on Wednesday, September 11, at 10 a.m. at http://www.sistersfolkfest.org/raffle.

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Breedlove guitar raffle will raise funds for educational outreach and programming.

The Breedlove guitar features a slotted headstock, a Western Red Cedar top, figured Myrtlewood back and sides, natural gloss finish, and figured Koa binding with Myrtlewood purfling. Built with a sunburst maple neck, Ebony fingerboard, and Gotoh 700 Nickel tuners with Morning Glory Mosaic Pins as inlay. The spalted maple rosette has inner and outer black purfling.

The instrument has an estimated value of $5,000 and comes with a deluxe hardshell case. Only 400 raffle entries will be sold at $25 each.

Tickets can be purchased online or in person at the SFF Presents office (204 W. Adams Ave., Ste. 101), or at the SFF JAM tent at Village Green during the festival until sold out. The winner will be drawn on Sunday, September 29, at 2:55 p.m. from the Village Green stage. The winner need not be present to win and the prizes can be shipped anywhere in the U.S. Entrants must be 18 years or older to purchase a ticket and must be located in the state of Oregon at the time of purchase, however you do not need to live in Oregon to enter. To learn more about what the raffle proceeds support, visit http://www.sffpresents.org/our-work.

Three-Day Festival passes and single-day Friday and Sunday tickets to the festival are available for purchase at http://www.sistersfolkfest.org. The folk festival has sold out every year since 2019 and organizers recommend purchasing tickets as soon as possible; Saturday passes are already sold out and other ticket quantities are low. Follow @SistersFolkFestival on Instagram and Facebook for additional information.