Jammin for Jethro is the brain Child of Black Frog Event and Artist Management from Auckland who started the events in 2010 after finding out about Support for Jethro Morrow (aka Jethro Gantley) online. Jethro is an Auckland boy who has a medical condition so rare he is the only child in NZ with it - aHUS or Atypical Hemolitic Uremic Syndrome. aHUS causes all the main organs to fail and this is what Jethro went through when he was diagnosed at only 8 months old - he was put on life support.
There is no cure for aHUS and the only medication for this is Solaris which is also know as the worlds most expensive drug with each treatment costs $24,000 which adds up to $500,000 A YEAR! And what makes it worse is that Jethro has been denied funding by Pharmac numerous times. Jethro doesn't need the medication YET as he is having weekly plasma transfusions but there could come a day when Jethro will need this life saving drug and his family are faced with the seemingly impossible task of finding $500,000 a year to save his life.
Black Frog owner, Sarah Sampson, pledged in 2010 that there would be a Jammin for Jethro event every year that Solaris isn't funded for Jethro.
To date over $4000 has been raised from the Jammin for Jethro events and this year marks the 2nd annual event in Tauranga and the 3rd Annual event in Palmerston North. As well as new events being held in Wellington and Rotorua.
Bands playing this years Auckland Show:
Scaphist (Official)
Overseer
KULUS
Red Harvest
Leathur Tattoo
THE BIG GUS
Time & Space
Brave Sons
Illuminus
Bands aren't in order of playing.. Run times will be up soon!
Thanks to Zeal for giving us the venue for free (but we have to pay for Security) and to Doug McHardlane for doing the poster.
