Faith In Humanity: Up a Notch Since Yesterday

So, I'm scrolling around facebook on my break today and I get a notification. It's an invite from a friend of mine and she has organised an event called The Tiny Dancer Twitter Hour. The intentions behind this event are to have as many people as possible to include #TinyDancerNo1 and #SirEltonSaysYes in their tweets to raise awareness for the story of 4 year old Lily-Mae who was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma and is currently undergoing treatment. Neorublastoma is a rare form of cancer, usually found in children and infants.

When Lily-Mae's parents, two dance choreographers, spoke publicly about their situation, a huge host of Irish musicians got wind of it and a friend of the family in the national broadcaster, RTÉ, decided to pull together and cover the Sir Elton John hit, Tiny Dancer. The plan is to get the single to No.1 this Christmas and raise money so that, should the treatment be unsuccessful, there is a second option but the treatment is quite costly and only available in the United States. The family are hoping that such a measure isn't required and if Lily-Mae is successful in her treatment first time round, all funds raised from the single will go to Neuroblastom Research here in Ireland.

A lot of people, including my friend, really want to give this a big push so please please please tweet your hearts out tonight with #TinyDancerNo1 and #SirEltonSaysYes at the end of your tweets!!

The twitter hour will be from 20:00 to 21:00 GMT

Please help in any way you can. The single is now available to buy from iTunes, Amazon and HMV stores nationwide. Please push it as much as you all can, even if you dont have a twitter account push it on facebook, text people and let them know about it, or go old school and just spread the word!

The video of all the musicians involved is below, with a short appearance by the little lady herself

She is a true inspiration to be in such good spirits. Lily Mae did, however, have her questions about the lyric "Tiny Dancer in my hand" .....

Another blogger quite passionate about this subject, and the organiser of the Twitter Hour can be found HERE aaaaand HERE

A tip of the hat to you, L