PLaying for Change

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Playing for Change! October 24, 2008

Bill Moyers sits down with Mark Johnson, the producer of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music:

PLAYING FOR CHANGE: PEACE THROUGH MUSIC.
The film brings together musicians from around the world - blues singers in a waterlogged New Orleans, chamber groups in Moscow, a South African choir - to collaborate on songs familiar and new, in the effort to foster a new, greater understanding of our commonality.Johnson traveled around the globe and recorded tracks for such classics as "Stand By Me" and Bob Marley's "One World" - creating a new mix in which essentially the performers are all performing together - worlds apart. Often recording with just battery-powered equipment, Johnson found musicians on street corners or in small clubs and they would in turn gather their friends and colleagues - in all, they recorded over 100 musicians from Tibet to Zimbabwe.

Playingforchange.com (for Flash users) or Playingforchange.org

www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/watch3.html