Peace Through Music – Playing For Change

Peace Through Music – Playing For Change

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Peace Through Music is a story of hope, struggle, perseverance and joy. Directors Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls, along with the Playing For Change team, travelled the globe with a single minded passion to connect the world through music.

Their ambitious journey took them from post-apartheid South Africa, through the ancient sites of the Middle East, to the remote beauty of the Himalayas and beyond. Using innovative mobile technology, they filmed and recorded more than 100 musicians, largely outdoors in parks, plazas and promenades, in doorways, on cobblestone streets and amid hilly pueblos.

Each captured performance creates a new mix in which essentially the artists are all performing together, albeit hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Playing For Change: Peace Through Music is the story of this unparalleled international musical collaboration and its remarkable power of redemption.

http://playingforchange.com

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Mary Travis of Peter, Paul & Mary Dies
September 17, 2009, 4:07 am
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Mary Travers Dies

Mary Travers, folk singer and political activist lost her battle against leukemia yesterday. She was aged 72. RIP. She was the female vocalist in the iconic 60’s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary.

Mary was a relentless campaigner of civil rights throughout her life and used her music in this endeavor.

Rolling Stone