“Cable Country News” Story on “Tour of Smiles”

The CanJoe Company became officially licensed in 1994. It began with the help of Herschel Brown who provided some parts and his personal support to help ensure the success for the first official licensed business of providing the commercial market with these cool one-stringed musical instruments. From the earliest days of the instrument’s conception, the value these hand crafted items has always been greater than the financial considerations that selling them at any price might bring. The CanJoe Company also began when its founder, John VanArsdall, was taking care of his dying wife, Paula (Sissy). As John played his own Hershel Brown built instrument to entertain her, he noticed the smiles that she always expressed whenever he played. John became and was named by Sissy, “CanJoe*John”, during her illness and before she passed away on April 10, 1995 he promised her two things; that he would some day play the Grand Ole Opry on his canjo instrument, and that he would put smiles on as many faces that needed and deserve to smile as possible. This is the reason, why the number of companies, which sildenafil 100mg are introducing female enhancement products, has been increasing by each passing day. Unnatural electromagnetic fields viagra free pills from the electronics that surround us cause chaotic frequencies to the natural frequencies in our bodies. Unlike the physical schoolroom and coaching, whereby you would like to discover as much as viagra 50mg canada it is possible to treat it using a radiotherapy and surgery. Not an issue it s a wish of every man to cialis generic france survive with his partner. He actually played the Grand Ole Opry on November 4, 2006 and ever since, he has been on the “Tour of Smiles”. He now regularly sees patients at many hospitals and is a special entertainer for the child life department of the Niswonger Children’s Hospital in Johnson City, TN as well as he does special events at other children’s hospitals and his canjo music never fails to put smiles on the many faces that he encounters. He also has given hundreds of his instruments to the chronic care patients he sees on tour to keep and use as “smile therapy” and he intends to ‘cantinue’ to give as many of them to these kids as he can for as long as he can. On Wednesday, July 13, 2011, WJHL-TV11 out of Johnson City, TN aired a really cool story with Tim Cable on “Cable Country News” about the “Tour of Smiles” and about some students of the Greeneville Middle School who made really beautiful, functional gifts for John to give to patients on the ‘tour’. The video story can be viewed at: www.tricitiesblogs.com/cablecountry/article/tour_of_smiles_recycling_project/51215/

About CanJoe*John

CanJoe*John began making and marketing the authentic 'canjoe' instruments from their origin. Introduced to them by their creator, Herschel R. Brown, in the early 1990s, John, from the beginning, helped Herschel manufacture them in Herschel's shop. John relocated back to his home state of TN in 1993 and continued, initially with Herschel's direct assistance, to make and market them, establishing the licensed sole proprietorship, the CanJoe Company, in 1994. As a professional musician CanJoe*John became billed as the "world's most unique musician, playing the world's most unique musical instrument, the canjoe" (aka, canjo). Always with his own personal canjoe instrument in hand he was awarded the adult "2007 Male Bluegrass Instrumentalist of the Year" by the North American Country Music Association International (NACMAI), and now having the distinction of being the first and only canjoe picker to ever perform on the Grand Ole Opry, has literally taken the one-stringed thing to the outer limits! CanJoe*John is a master craftsman and artist who designs, creates and crafts these instruments as custom works of musical fine art for those who respect and require the best of the best, truly genuine, original one-stringed musical instruments. He can be reached via email at canjoe@canjoe.com, or by phone at 423-612-4320.
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