Post by Libby on Nov 25, 2014 2:05:17 GMT
I found Hayley's name was listed in this article as one of the supporters of this cause, for the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit, in Bath. Here's the coinciding section of the article:
Those who pay attention to Hayley's ebay items might be interested.
www.somersetguardian.co.uk/Leander-guitar-100-stars/story-24277127-detail/story.html
Leander and the guitar of 100 stars
Posted: November 06, 2014
You also have a rather special guitar which you're planning to auction off?
The guitar relates to the efforts to raise money towards Bath's NICU. I originally obtained the guitar back in 2009 when I went on my walk-gig-a-thon!
I was in talks with Mrs Yeoman and we had an already signed guitar to raffle from Status Quo.
The guitar raised around £2,000. One of my supporters, Mrs Yeoman and I discussed whether we would have raised a little more with an auction. Another lightbulb moment happened and within an hour, I had been donated a guitar by Kim at Sounds of Frome.
I also had inside info that Cara Dillon was performing on the 2009 Children In Need official song so I spoke with Sam Lakeman about taking the guitar to Abbey Road studios to get some signatures so we could get the ball rolling on creating a piece of art that we could one day auction.
A friend, Bob Condrey was an official photographer for that session so between Cara, Sam and Bob, they gathered a number of star names.
I then set out on a mission to get some of the world's finest artists to cover the guitar.
It now features: Brian May, Peter Gabriel, Jeff Beck, Ed Sheeran, Frank Turner, Coldplay, Ben Folds Five, Gabrielle Aplin, Duane Eddy, Hayley Westenra, Cara Dillon, Paloma Faith, Kate Nash, Sadé, Reef, Turin Brakes, Adam Ant, Clare Teal, Ginger Baker, Chris Rea, Sir Terry Wogan, Bill Wyman and Nicholas Cage among others.
The guitar will be appearing on ebay on November 7 and I hope we make a nice amount of money for our local NICU.
If we raise a more than generous sum, I hope to donate some funds toward another NICU in the UK, maybe one that is trying to kickstart a similar fundraising campaign to improve facilities.
Leander and the guitar of 100 stars
Posted: November 06, 2014
You also have a rather special guitar which you're planning to auction off?
The guitar relates to the efforts to raise money towards Bath's NICU. I originally obtained the guitar back in 2009 when I went on my walk-gig-a-thon!
I was in talks with Mrs Yeoman and we had an already signed guitar to raffle from Status Quo.
The guitar raised around £2,000. One of my supporters, Mrs Yeoman and I discussed whether we would have raised a little more with an auction. Another lightbulb moment happened and within an hour, I had been donated a guitar by Kim at Sounds of Frome.
I also had inside info that Cara Dillon was performing on the 2009 Children In Need official song so I spoke with Sam Lakeman about taking the guitar to Abbey Road studios to get some signatures so we could get the ball rolling on creating a piece of art that we could one day auction.
A friend, Bob Condrey was an official photographer for that session so between Cara, Sam and Bob, they gathered a number of star names.
I then set out on a mission to get some of the world's finest artists to cover the guitar.
It now features: Brian May, Peter Gabriel, Jeff Beck, Ed Sheeran, Frank Turner, Coldplay, Ben Folds Five, Gabrielle Aplin, Duane Eddy, Hayley Westenra, Cara Dillon, Paloma Faith, Kate Nash, Sadé, Reef, Turin Brakes, Adam Ant, Clare Teal, Ginger Baker, Chris Rea, Sir Terry Wogan, Bill Wyman and Nicholas Cage among others.
The guitar will be appearing on ebay on November 7 and I hope we make a nice amount of money for our local NICU.
If we raise a more than generous sum, I hope to donate some funds toward another NICU in the UK, maybe one that is trying to kickstart a similar fundraising campaign to improve facilities.
Those who pay attention to Hayley's ebay items might be interested.
