John McBride & Guitar Center Music Foundation Partner to Launch Blackbird Student Grant Program: ‘Music Can Improve Your Life … And the Whole World’

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New inaugural follows successful aftermath of foundation's 4th yearly payment gala honoring McBride, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

(l-r) Jimmy Jam, John McBride and Terry Lewis seen astatine the 4th Annual Guitar Center Music Foundation Gala astatine The Maybourne Beverly Hills connected Thursday, September 11, 2025 successful Beverly Hills, California.

The Guitar Center Music Foundation and Nashville engineering/production icon John McBride person teamed up to motorboat the Blackbird Music Student monthly assistance program. McBride owns Music City-based Blackbird Studio. Since opening its doors successful 2002, the workplace has hosted signaling sessions for a big of euphony stars specified arsenic Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake and Jack Harlow.

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McBride besides serves arsenic organization manager of The Blackbird Academy. McBride and his wife, state prima Martina McBride, launched the academy successful 2013 which, arsenic its website notes, is “dedicated to advancing the prime of signaling acquisition done a hands-on, nonrecreational grooming curriculum.”

The Blackbird assistance program’s motorboat follows connected the heels of the Guitar Center Music Foundation’s 4th yearly payment gala (Sept. 11) during which McBride and Grammy-winning songwriting/production duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were some honored. McBrider eceived the foundation’s beingness accomplishment award, presented by Martina and state fable Garth Brooks. McBride revealed the assistance initiative’s motorboat during his acceptance code noting, “Music tin amended your beingness … and the full world.”

Jam & Lewis were honored with the Vanguard Award, presented by Nicole Avant, girl of the pair’s precocious mentor and euphony manufacture pioneer Clarence Avant. The instauration besides honored firefighters and educators during the ceremony.