What Do You See?

Tom Kerr is a lifelong musician and songwriter with no connection to Down syndrome. After seeing a photo of his new grandson, Aaron, with our Chairman's daughter Rosie, Tom viewed positive awareness campaigns for the first time and immediately put pen to paper and wrote this song.

Wouldn't Change a Thing published Tom's beautiful lyrics at the time.

Since then, the song has taken on a life of its own. Another musician and friend of Tom, Colin Kennedy, composed and sang all of the the music to go with Tom's lyrics in his own studio. In the final stages he was able to enlist some other connections - JJ Gilmour of band The Silencers to do some backing vocals and Graeme Duffin of Wet Wet Wet to mix the track.

We think the result is awesome!

This campaign is about this song and the story behind it's making.

It's how a member of the public with zero knowledge of Down syndrome can have his misconceptions challenged and changed solely by being exposed to positive lived experience.

To support the music, we compiled this video using clips we had in-hand from many old campaigns (and a few unseen outtakes!) in an attempt to recreate some of the original journey that Tom went on before writing it.

The track is available on all major music streaming and download sites with all proceeds going towards positive awareness and supporting families.

This campaign is for Christmas 2020 and also to create positivity during a difficult time for people with Down syndrome and their families.

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