Ava Holsather inspired to play guitar by her dad

by Emily Weinlick
PHS Press staff member

Ava Holsather (Photo by Paavo Downing)

Planet Homeschool student Ava Holsather’s hobby is playing her guitar. She plays a ¾ size left-handed Taylor acoustic guitar and ¾ size left-handed Ibanez electric guitar.

She takes guitar lessons at the Linden Hills House of Music and plays at recitals on the Famous Daves stage. Her last performance she had a very special opportunity to play with a drummer and another guitarist. “It was so fun to play with other people who loved music just as much as I do!” Ava said.

Her dream is to play in a band and go on tour. She thinks that it would be such an enjoyable time to go around the world to different places and performing all kinds of different music. She wants to be part of a band because she loves collaborating with different instruments and song writers to make a performance seem more professional.

Ava’s dad loves to play guitar, as well. Ava enjoys playing with her dad, because they are able to share new songs they know or wrote with each other. Ava was motivated to play the guitar because of her dad. Ava’s dad is not in a band himself, he just enjoys to play for his family.

The reason Ava got a guitar in the first place is because she liked playing around with her dad’s guitar even though it was to big. Her parents realized that what she needed was a guitar her size and a left-handed styled one too. Ava has been playing guitar ever since June 2011.

(Photo by Paavo Downing)