EMERALD LILT: Irish band Shenanigans players Justin Reed and Jane Boyers will help share an emerald lilt at King Street Live in Masterton on Saturday. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
EMERALD LILT: Irish band Shenanigans players Justin Reed and Jane Boyers will help share an emerald lilt at King Street Live in Masterton on Saturday. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
The green of Irish music will help gather gold tomorrow night for a Masterton under-13 rugby team raising $23,000 for a trip to Australia.
Fundraising spokeswoman Michelle Gibbons said a wealth of businesses and individuals in the town had helped with fundraising for the Masterton Red Star Rugby Club sideand promotion company Up With People was the latest to "come on board" with a profit-sharing offer involving a performance from the Irish band Shenanigans at King Street Live on Saturday - ahead of St Patrick's Day on Tuesday.
A team of 22 Red Star players and almost as many parents were aiming to travel to Brisbane on a sports exchange in July, Ms Gibbons said, which will include a couple of days on the Gold Coast "for a bit of fun" as well.
"All of the boys and their parents and lots of local businesses have supported us with prizes and other help. It's been hard work but we've raised about $18,000 to date, so we're well on the way."
The group had run a quiz night, sold firewood and raffles, and held numerous sausage sizzles since fundraising started last season, she said, for a trip that will also farewell some of the teammates who had been playing together for the club for most of the past decade.
"Some of the boys have been playing in the same team together for Red Star since they were three, and this will be the last year they'll be playing together, so the trip was something some of the parents came up with to kick their final junior years into touch, so to speak."
She said Up With People promoter Mark Rogers also had a son playing in the side and the coming opportunity to raise funds was much appreciated.
Concert tickets cost $25 each and, to help with Red Star fundraising, were available through Michelle Gibbons at 0273 030 434.
