Parrot Heads helping Parrot Heads
Last year during Meeting of the Minds in Key West, Parrot Heads had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when the Lone Palm Foundation partnered with Sidney Strong and the Singing for Change Charitable Foundation. Strong was Jimmy Buffett’s scenographer for building concert backdrops featured at concerts. At MOTM, we auctioned six original watercolor paintings of some of those concert […]
Lone Palm Foundation has partnered with Sidney Strong and the SFC Charitable Foundation to offer Parrot Heads a chance at exclusive, one-of-a-kind watercolor paintings based on the unique backdrops developed for Jimmy Buffett’s tours by his scenographer, Sidney Strong. Those backdrops no longer exist. These paintings were done by Michael Ireland will be auctioned off […]
I was recently asked, “What is the Lone Palm Foundation?” The first thing that quickly rolled off my tongue was “Parrot Heads helping Parrot Heads.” I know a more appropriate answer may have been, “The Lone Palm Foundation is the charitable arm of Parrot Heads in Paradise (PHIP), Inc. and we are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization designed […]
Funding for Lone Palm Foundation comes from several sources. You know about the NOLA Margaritaville sale we just had. Now we’ll talk about two others here. The first is from the revived Live Auction at Meeting of The Minds (MOTM), Parrot Heads in Paradise’s (PHiP) annual convention in Key West (it’s coming up fast!). Held on Saturday […]
Most Parrot Heads were saddened last year when it was announced the iconic Margaritaville New Orleans Restaurant was closing its doors. Although it was a bittersweet goodbye, there’s a silver lining within this story. The nice folks at Margaritaville contacted us and offered to donate several items that were used within the restaurant. We jumped […]