As son battles cancer, London musician’s guitar raffle raises thousands for charity [Video]

After three decades, a London musician is stepping back from touring to be with his 12-year-old son, who is battling brain cancer.

Trevor Lewington plays guitar and sings in the Celtic rock group Enter the Haggis, which performed their final shows in mid-March in Troy, N.Y.

The band’s sound features bagpipes, a violin and trumpet, and it’ been featured in films and on television, including a PBS special.

During the band’s 18-show final tour in the U.S., Lewington says he decided to raffle off his first-ever guitar, a 1991 American Telecaster purchased at a Toronto pawn shop in the 90s, to raise money to fight paediatric brain cancer. 

After selling nearly $50,000 worth of raffle tickets to fans during the tour, the band held a draw on Mar. 25, and on Thursday, Lewington presented cheques of the proceeds to two London-based charities.

More than $35,000 was donated to the Brain …