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Southland Charity Hospital volunteers Jim Hurring, Kyliee Fisher, Aileen Findlater and Emma Strang are ready for the annual Red, White and Black Day fundraiser on Friday.
Celebrities are backing a re-recorded version of Southern Dreams, which will be launched ahead of Southland’s annual Red, White and Back Day.
The day, on Friday, was started in 2020 as a fundraiser for the Southland Charity Hospital, the vision of the late Blair Vining and his wife, Melissa.
Melissa Vining said this year’s Red, White, and Black Day would be quite exciting thanks to a kind gesture from the students at Hauroko Valley Primary School.
“They [the students] re-wrote the Southland Stags’ Southern Dreams song about the hospital and about Blair and it’s so cute.
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“And celebrities from all around New Zealand have participated in a music video which is going to be launched on [Thursday], the night before Red, Black and White Day,” she said.
Vining said Graham Henry, Sam Cane and some other All Blacks have participated in the music video; as well as TV personalities such as Amanda Gillies and of course the kids that re-wrote the song.
“We’ve basically got people from Waitaki to Bluff participating in the music video as well … to show all the areas that the hospital covers,” she said.
According to Vining, Jason Kerrison (who sang the original Southern Dreams song) re-recorded the version with the kids’ lyrics for the music video and Rugby Southland had given permission for the song to be used.
The staff and students of the Southern Institute of Technology helped produce the music video.
“They went around and did all the recording.”
The Southland Charity Hospital Trust was established in 2019. Blair Vining was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer in 2018. He and his family fought for better cancer care in New Zealand.
The charity hospital is part of that vision and will provide colonoscopies to people in the Southern DHB zone and intends to expand services over time.
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