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Transplant Band sings for organ donation
Group to raise money for hospital
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The Transplant Band is comprised of Donna Weaver, from left, Henry Troutman, Mike Gottsman, Tom Kirk, Mike Haynes, Athena Robinson and Douglas Ellison. The one-time band formed to promote organ donor awareness and raise money for the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Egleston hospital. - photo by J.K. Devine
The newly formed Gainesville group The Transplant Band was created for one purpose: to “share the beat.” Not just the musical beat of Henry Troutman on drums, Tom Kirk on bass guitar or any of the other five talented musicians, but the beat of a life-saving heart, which signifies the band’s central motivation. “We wanted to promote organ donor awareness and to do it as a thank you to the doctors and the nurses at the (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta) Egleston hospital,” Troutman said.