Don Jackson Transplant Fundraiser w/ Chris Helme, The Mothers, The Soul Survivors + DJs

Don Jackson Transplant Fundraiser
w/ Chris Helme, The Mothers, The Soul Survivors + DJs
Thursday 9th March, Doors 7pm
Tickets are £10 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.

For those of you who know Don, you will be aware that he has been a stalwart of the York music scene for many many years, as a performer, guitarist and songwriter in many bands, from CO2, Nearer The Far, The Crowmen, Ripe, right up until his current band Luna Velvet. Internationally, many of you will know him via his Dance Music imprint, Headstrong.

Please join us for an evening at The Crescent for a CHARITY EVENT FOR DON JACKSON – LIve music from Chris Helme, The Mothers & The Soul Survivors – DJ + Raffle & Prizes

Sadly, Don has been badly let down by the UK NHS, when, after 7 months on the waiting list, he has now been told that the cancerous lesions on his liver have grown to marginally over the UK size limit, and they cannot, or will not, now perform the operation for him.

Despite the fact that he has been repeatedly assured over this time period that a transplant was imminent (the UK average waiting time for this operation is allegedly 65 days!), and, that after nothing was happening for months, a brave family member stepped forward to offer to donate part of his liver for the operation.

In a cruel twist of fate, just as Don’s family donor passed all the stringent UK compatibility tests for the operation to go ahead, he has been given the devastating news that they will not now proceed in the UK.

The only realistic option now open to him is a transplant in Turkey. Turkey has a brilliant reputation, the best in the world for expert advanced technology, and performs way more state of the art Living Donor Liver Transplants than any country in the world. Their success rate is amongst the highest in the world.

Link: https://gofund.me/95f4dbec

Don Jackson Transplant Fundraiser
w/ Chris Helme, The Mothers, The Soul Survivors + DJs
Thursday 9th March, 7pm
Tickets are £10 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.