cancer fundraising
The year could not have started on a more sad note. The death of Nicole Cooper came as a terrible shock. 2022 had been a difficult year for her with her health and ongoing treatment for bowel cancer, but I hadn’t seen the devastating news coming at all.
It may seem a little odd to talk about the end of Fields of Dawn with the forthcoming album being released on New Years Day. However, there are some reasons behind my reasons for calling time on this particular musical venture. Fields of Dawn has been going for almost 4 years and raised around £3000
November 25th marked 11 years of my fundraising and raising awareness about bowel cancer. I would never have guessed when my Beating Bowel Cancer book was published 25/11/2012 that 11 years on I would still be here pushing the fundraising as hard as ever and receiving the continued phenomenal support from the most amazing supporters, who more importantly have become my friends x The impact this has had on my own life cannot be understated – it really has been life-changing.
April sees a brand new music release dedicated to the memory of Laura Hopkinson with 100% of the profits raised by every sale donated to MacMillan and St Oswald’s Hospice. These two charitable organisations, chosen by Laura’s family, provided her with great help and support.
Another young life lost to bowel cancer. Jen McEntee sadly died on October 27th aged just 35 years old. I knew Jen on social media following her @irish_bowel_cancer_journey account on Instagram. She was doing an amazing amount of raising awareness about bowel cancer documenting her own journey. Her bowel cancer story is all too familiar being a young person whose symptoms were ignored for way too long.
I thought it would be interesting to run through the album track by track giving an insight into how the album came and what the songs are about. My initial plan was to perhaps write an record an album over the course of a year to 18 months similar to the last album. I certainly
This Christmas all the old favourites are back along with some new friends added to the store. They make the perfect stocking filler for young and old alike. 100% of all the profits from every order received are donated to cancer charities, and for a few items you can choose the charity of your choice
One of the strategies I was given during my mental health therapy, a couple of years ago now, was writing a daily journal. I found it immensely helpful, but I have been somewhat slack in recent times. I’ve decided to start it up again and see how I go with it. So many little things
The debut fundraising album from my music project Fields of Dawn was released last September and so far has raised over £1300. A New Dawn is available on vinyl, CD and digital download. Two tracks were recorded with Steve Smiley Barnard of The Alarm at the helm and the other other 9 songs all self-produced. The songs were written by myself and have a punky, alternative, melodic perhaps power pop sound to them. The one track that is the exception to this is No Man’s Land, which is a piano ballad about that legendary football match during World War 1, which also featured on the Reflections EP that came out last Christmas.
The debut fundraising album from my music project Fields of Dawn was released last September and so far has raised over £1300. A New Dawn is available on vinyl, CD and digital download. Two tracks were recorded with Steve Smiley Barnard of The Alarm at the helm and the other other 9 songs all self-produced. The songs were written by myself and have a punky, alternative, melodic perhaps power pop sound to them. The one track that is the exception to this is No Man’s Land, which is a piano ballad about that legendary football match during World War 1, which also featured on the Reflections EP that came out last Christmas.
