- October 11, 2024
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Local organizers for the Palm Coast Songwriters Festival raised $3,000 at the May event to provide free books to Flagler County children.
The Early Learning Coalition of Flagler and Volusia Counties — a local affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library — partners with Flagler County community champions to send a book each month to Flagler County children, from newborns to 5-year-olds, who are registered for the program, according to a press release from the Songwriters Festival.
Dolly Parton’s nonprofit provides free books to children across the United States and internationally.
The festival also raised $5,000 for the Daytona State College Foundation, which supports students in the Mike Curb School of Music at DSC; and $5,700 for the Gold Star Mentors Foundation, which provides guitars and introductory guitar lessons to children and young adults who are grieving the death of a military loved one.
The Gold Star Mentors funds were raised through the auction of an autographed guitar with the signatures of artists Vince Gill, David Lee Murphy, Darryl Worley and Deana Carter.
