The Guitar Center Music Foundation and Nashville engineering/production icon John McBride have teamed up to launch the Blackbird Music Student monthly grant program. McBride owns Music City-based Blackbird Studio. Since opening its doors in 2002, the studio has hosted recording sessions for a host of music stars such as Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake and Jack Harlow.

McBride also serves as institutional director of The Blackbird Academy. McBride and his wife, country star Martina McBride, launched the academy in 2013 which, as its website notes, is “dedicated to advancing the quality of recording education through a hands-on, professional training curriculum.”

The Blackbird grant program’s launch follows on the heels of the Guitar Center Music Foundation’s fourth annual be

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