Sean McCann hosts fundraising concert to supply guitars for vets

Military veteran Jim Lowther felt trapped in a cycle of despair brought on by his injuries, both mental and physical, when he remembered the acoustic guitar that was tucked away in a corner of his home in Halifax.
“One day, the medications weren’t working, and I had tried everything — yoga, meditation, you name it — to help break the feeling of despair,” he recalls of that dark day in 2009. “Then I picked up my guitar, dusted it off and started banging on it.