Playing For Change: a global collaborative music movement
Playing For Change is a both remarkable film and a global multimedia movement to connect the world through music.
The film, Playing for Change - Peace Through Music, is a documentary about music and its inherent ability to unite people. It began with a single recording of street performer Roger Ridley in Santa Monica, California singing “Stand By Me”. From there it snowballed into a year-long journey around the world by one of the directors, Mark Johnson, to record over 100 musicians at street corners, small clubs and homes in places like New Orleans, Moscow, South Africa, and Tibet, using small and portable sound and video equipment.
The critical acclaim and positive momentum of this and the directors’ first film (Playing for Change, released in 2003) led to the creation of Playing For Change Foundation. The Foundation provides support and resources to musicians and communities around the world by building music schools in places like South Africa, helping students to create and share their music and enabling collaboration between students of their schools and students from established schools around the world.
Playing For Change will release a CD and DVD of their music and videos in the spring of 2009. Some of the audio and video content is also available at their website playingforchange.com
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