{"id":753,"date":"2026-09-20T23:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_news=local-band-hosts-benefit-concert-for-musician-battling-rare-form-of-cancer"},"modified":"2026-09-20T23:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:03:27","slug":"local-band-hosts-benefit-concert-for-musician-battling-rare-form-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"sjc_news","link":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_news=local-band-hosts-benefit-concert-for-musician-battling-rare-form-of-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Local band hosts benefit concert for musician battling rare form of cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/capture-9.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ST. JOSEPH, Mo (KQTV) &#8212; A benefit musical concert was put on by local band &#8220;Under the Influence,&#8221; a philanthropic effort to raise money for Tyler Osborn, a local musician diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doctors describing his case as an &#8220;extraordinarily rare form of malignancy, estimated to occur at a rate of only about one in a billion cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osborn has undergone surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and additional treatments and surgeries are planned in the future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help with his treatment costs, local musicians and his friends from Under the Influence rallied to create a benefit concert featuring eight hours of live music, a raffle, and other efforts to raise money for their friend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already, thousands of dollars have been raised through his GoFundMe, and a strong outpouring of support from hundreds of St. Joseph residents has helped as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Tyler is a special guy, and he touched a lot of people&#8217;s lives through his music,&#8221; said Kevin Schneider, an organizer and member of Under the Influence. &#8220;He was a teacher in an area school for a number of years, and he&#8217;s a photographer now. He really touches people with his art. It makes me feel really good to see people come out and support him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help support Tyler Osborn on his journey, a link to his GoFundMe can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-tyler-osborns-fight-against-rare-cancer\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/news\/2026\/09\/20\/local-band-hosts-benefit-concert-for-musician-battling-rare-form-of-cancer\/\">Local band hosts benefit concert for musician battling rare form of cancer<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\">KQ2 | St. Joseph, Missouri News, Weather &amp; Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. JOSEPH, Mo (KQTV) &#8212; A benefit musical concert was put on by local band &#8220;Under the Influence,&#8221; a philanthropic effort to raise money for Tyler Osborn, a local musician diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":754,"template":"","class_list":["post-753","sjc_news","type-sjc_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_news\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/sjc_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}