Frank Delany and his wife, Maddy, had been playing music for chapel services at the Mission for about a year when Frank began to wonder if some of the men in the recovery program might be interested in learning to play the guitar.  He offered ten weeks of free lessons in folk guitar on Wednesday nights and picked up two very eager students:  Ronnie Rutt and Brandon Gwyn.  Ronnie is a songwriter who wants to learn how to put his lyrics to music.  Brandon said he has wanted to play the guitar since he was a teenager, but “it’s just one of those things I never followed through on.” 

Frank, a producer for Spokane Public Radio and an accomplished musician, loaned Ronnie one of his own guitars and did some repair work on a loaner from the Mission for Brandon.  After the first 10 weeks, the three men were having such a good time that Frank extended the lessons into blues guitar.  So, now, on Wednesday nights the library at the Union Gospel Mission is filled with the sound of men making music and pursuing lifelong dreams.