Carrie Underwood donates musical instruments to hometown Checotah schools

JENNIFER CHANCELLOR - Tulsa World | Published: August 28, 2009 | Modified: August 28, 2009 at 2:17 pm


Today, country music superstarlet Carrie Underwood gave her hometown school district a gift that will change lives.

It's a gift of music -- to the tune of $117,000 in musical instruments – that she's donating to the three music programs at three Checotah schools.

Carrie Underwood speaks at Checotah High School with some of the instruments that her C.A.T.S. Foundation and ACM Lifting LIves donated to the school Aug. 28, 2009. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World
Carrie Underwood speaks at Checotah High School with some of the instruments that her C.A.T.S. Foundation and ACM Lifting LIves donated to the school Aug. 28, 2009. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

From the auditorium stage in the small high school from which she graduated, Underwood's fifth-grade music teacher Kathy Cooper joined her and hundreds of young Checotah music students to make the announcement on Friday morning.

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