The much admired Cape Breton musician Carmen Townsend holds the cherry red, 1965 Guild Starfire guitar that was stolen, along with three others, from the trunk of her car in a break-in last night on Willow Street in Halifax.
Townsend, who performs as a soloist and also with such bands the Tom Fun Orchestra and Motorleage, has owned the Guild since she was 19.
"It is my baby," she writes in a Kijiji ad seeking its return. "I am crushed."
Everyone who experiences a break-in or a burglary feels violated, but the theft of a struggling musician's tools of the trade is a...
08 August, 2012