Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2009/January 2010 | Page 9

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CD gets Hospice dreamin’ of
a Wight Christmas
A winning collaboration
between musician Jamie Griffin

shops on the Island.
Simon has already performed

Howard, is on sale now.

produced a Christmas song for

Pipes, the band of talented

See Jamie Griffin’s story,

the Island. All the profits from

musicians put together by

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Christmas Time will go to the

Island bagpiper Kieron Cooney

Earl Mountbatten Hospice.

at their inaugural concert in
Jamie is part
of that band

years ago,” said Jamie, at Flyte

and was

Studio. “He said he’d always

delighted

wanted to record it. So he

with the

sang it to me, I orchestrated

response

it, and then I thought he could

to the

release it for the Hospice.”

band’s own

The song, Jamie says, is ‘a

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Headboards

November.

father had written about 10

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CD. “The

little bit White Christmas’:

concert and

“the sort of thing people

CD raised

like at this time of year.” It is

over £4,000

available through the Hospice

for the

Manufacturers of fine soft furnishings

Christmas Time, by Simon

the song with Wight Hot

the song that he and his late

Est. 1980

Hospice,” he said.

and lyricist Simon Howard has

“Simon came to me with

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