Offbeat Magazine's Best of the Beat Community Music Award
Send Me A Friend was presented the 2018 Community Music Award at Offbeat Magazine's Best of the Beat Music Business Awards. We're beyond honored to receive this acknowledgement. Many thanks to Positive Vibrations Foundation for taking us under their wing as we work to establish Send Me A Friend as its own entity and to our friends/colleagues at Imagine Recovery New Orleans whose guidance and support has accelerated our growth this year. And a very special thanks to all of ou
"Won't Bow Down" photos by Erika Goldring
All photos by Erika Goldring© Anders Osborne's "Won't Bow Down" benefiting Send Me A Friend
FEATURING:
Anders Osborne
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
Big Chief Juan Pardo
Doug Belote Billy Iuso Jon Gross
Brad Walker and more #wontbowdown #fundraiser #andersosborne #bigchiefmonkboudreaux #bigchiefjuanpardo #billyiuso #imaginerecoveryneworleans
Balancing music, sobriety: How Ivan Neville, Anders Osborne got sober and now help others
Many thanks to our friends Harold Owens, Ivan Neville and our partners Imagine Recovery for facilitating a very inspiring conversation surrounding the struggles & the joys of achieving and maintaining sobriety as a creative at our November Lifeshop. Balancing music, sobriety: How Ivan Neville, Anders Osborne got sober and now help others > words by Keith Spera, photos by Chris Granger | The New Orleans Advocate #haroldowens #ivanneville #musicares #press #imaginerecoverynewor
Introducing Lifeshops
Send Me A Friend’s mission is to support musicians and creative professionals who face unique challenges while in early recovery and on the road to a new way of life. Starting as a network of sober “Friends” that are on call to come to a gig and offer a helping hand and source of support, SMAF now has over 1,500 volunteers throughout the country. In 2018, SMAF opened its office in New Orleans at Imagine Recovery (728 Nashville Ave), where they now host monthly “Lifeshops,” ga
Send Me A Friend Partners With Positive Vibrations Foundation | Offbeat Magazine
Thank you, Offbeat Magazine for helping us get the word out about one of our latest projects, Send Me A Friend. We're exited to help SMAF Co-Founders Anders Osborne & Bill Taylor grow their vision!! "Osborne contacted Taylor about his Send Me a Friend concept because of Taylor’s experience at nonprofits. Taylor liked the concept’s straightforwardness. They launched the program in December 2016. Send Me a Friend’s partnership with Positive Vibrations Foundation began in Janua
SMAF NOLA Fundraiser
The energy that came with the support for our New Orleans Fundraising event during jazzfest is still inspiring us today! Our Co-Founder, Anders Osborne and Nolatet delivered a very special, unique, and intimate performance and the setting at John Bukaty Gallery was perfect. We can not thank you enough, FRIENDS! We are honored to start our new partnership with Positive Vibrations Foundation off on the good foot and truly grateful to all of you who have gotten us to where we ar
