Local band performs song to honor Donate Life Month
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By JENNIFER SUMMER
April is Donate Life Month, and Methodist Hospital in Houston holds a Celebration of Life ceremony every year to recognize patients who have received a transplant and families who have had a family member be a donor.
The band orange is in has had the opportunity to play at the ceremony for the past couple of years and listen to the stories of the families and patients.
Band member George Kovacik, a Kingwood resident, and a couple of his bandmates were inspired by each of the stories. They wrote a song detailing the story of a transplant patient and a donor - “Someone Came to Help Me.”
“We played this song for the first time at last year’s Celebration of Life and then we were asked to play it again at this year’s event; people really connected with the song and the meaning behind it,” Kovacik said. “The song is one that a lot of people can connect with and it is an emotional, bittersweet story.”
Though April is recognized as Donate Life Month, Kovacik said it is something that is always ongoing, and the song can relate to the transplant patient, donor family or any other tough situation one might be going through.
The cover for “Someone Came to Help Me” was designed by Kovacik’s daughter Julianne, an eighth-grader at Creekwood Middle School, and features an orange for the band’s namesake with wings and the band’s name across the center.
“I sat down with her and asked her to draw the cover because I wanted to see what she could come up with. The band loved the idea and the drawing,” Kovacik said.
Orange has played at several local events besides the Celebration of Life ceremony, including Kingwood Town Center’s Walk the Park music festival in 2008. The band’s music ranges from ’60s pop to ’80s post punk.
“‘Someone Came to Help Me’ is great for any situation, especially transplant patients, because it talks about how you are almost at wit’s end, waiting, and someone comes to help you out,” Kovacik said.
“We have cherished this opportunity and it has been a great experience to affect others’ lives as they have our own.”
To check out the orange is in performance of “Someone Came to Help Me,” log on towww.youtube.com/watch?v=-98NyzB3f6I.
For more about orange is in, log on to www.orangeisin.com.
The band orange is in has had the opportunity to play at the ceremony for the past couple of years and listen to the stories of the families and patients.
Band member George Kovacik, a Kingwood resident, and a couple of his bandmates were inspired by each of the stories. They wrote a song detailing the story of a transplant patient and a donor - “Someone Came to Help Me.”
“We played this song for the first time at last year’s Celebration of Life and then we were asked to play it again at this year’s event; people really connected with the song and the meaning behind it,” Kovacik said. “The song is one that a lot of people can connect with and it is an emotional, bittersweet story.”
Though April is recognized as Donate Life Month, Kovacik said it is something that is always ongoing, and the song can relate to the transplant patient, donor family or any other tough situation one might be going through.
The cover for “Someone Came to Help Me” was designed by Kovacik’s daughter Julianne, an eighth-grader at Creekwood Middle School, and features an orange for the band’s namesake with wings and the band’s name across the center.
“I sat down with her and asked her to draw the cover because I wanted to see what she could come up with. The band loved the idea and the drawing,” Kovacik said.
Orange has played at several local events besides the Celebration of Life ceremony, including Kingwood Town Center’s Walk the Park music festival in 2008. The band’s music ranges from ’60s pop to ’80s post punk.
“‘Someone Came to Help Me’ is great for any situation, especially transplant patients, because it talks about how you are almost at wit’s end, waiting, and someone comes to help you out,” Kovacik said.
“We have cherished this opportunity and it has been a great experience to affect others’ lives as they have our own.”
To check out the orange is in performance of “Someone Came to Help Me,” log on towww.youtube.com/watch?v=-98NyzB3f6I.
For more about orange is in, log on to www.orangeisin.com.
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