Meet Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls, who collaborated to create an incredibly moving concept and film: Playing For Change – Peace Through Music. Wow!
Johnson came up with the concept ten years ago in the Big Apple when he heard two Buddhists monks playing music in a subway stop, mesmerizing the usually callous New Yorkers. The film, which is 75 minutes of musicians from all over the world collaborating to make magic, has taken three years to make. The film should be released in 2009 if it gets distributed. Playing for Change – Peace Through Music is more than a film, It’s a movement for our global village.
Here are some trailers:
[...] MeetJohnSong brings to our attention a global collaborative musical project called Playing for Change: Peace [...]
Please notify me when I can purchase the DVD of Playing for Change: Peace Through Music. I just loved the Bill Moyers segment and the excerpts on You Tube.
Peggy
[...] MeetJohnSong [En] chama a nossa atenção para um projeto musical colaborativo global chamado Playing for Change: Peace through Music [”Tocando a Mudança: Paz através da Música”, em uma tradução livre]. O conceito por trás do projeto é o de que a música é um fator comum de agregação entre diferentes culturas, etnicidades e regiões. Os filmes e músicas estarão disponíveis em 2009, e mais informações sobre o projeto podem ser encontradas no site do Playing for Change [En]. [...]
I will try to monitor the movement’s process and keep everyone updated on this blog, including the CD release. Thanks for your interest.
John
[...] by ElJay Arem (IMC OnAir) on December 8, 2008 MeetJohnSong brings to our attention a global collaborative musical project called Playing for Change: Peace [...]
Please notify me as soon as Playing For Change is available. It is magnificent!
I see our blogs are linked by our mutual admiration of this movie and its message.
If only there were more people who espoused this theory, the world would be such a happier and safer place.
maybe someday?
Happy New Year to You!
Elaine
Here is Mark Johnson’s guest post on Bill Moyer’s Blog. He articulates well his movement and gives information that many of you should be interested in.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/12/guest_blogger_mark_johnson_of.html
BTW, expect DVD and CD early in ‘09.
John
[...] Previously, I introduced a movement that is trying to unite the human race through music: Playing for Change, Peace Through Music. Since then, I’ve received so many wonderful responses about this movement that I wanted to [...]
I like your work. Check out Lay Down Your Weapons and The Monks of Myanmar on my site.
tp
please let me know when the Playing for Change: Peace Through Music cd is available. I listened on You Tube and loved it. Good work!
I also would like to be notified when your cd comes out. Stand By Me is such a beautiful song, and listening to it while watching the performers sing, just makes me feel so emotional, and a love for everyone. They should show this video in schools. !!
Thank you….thank you…thank you !!!!!!!
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I am 17 and was recently diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. I was in a group home and currently I am trying to embrace moral wholesomeness. I used to hate religon or the idea of it. I am enrolled in a drug-free program and plan on participating in orginizations for people with mental illnesses. When i looked up buhddism on wikipedia i was mesmerized. It was more or less made up of ideas i had previously thought, but these ideas were not thought in the terms that buhddism describes,at least not all of them. I listen to heavy-metal music, punk, classic rock and reggae, but lately i got into a band called August burns red. They are heavy, they are brutal, they are something i agree with but at the same time their lyrics are more or less in correspondence with buhddism. I will become a buhddist and I plan on playing music. I want to do this in the traditional respects of buhddism. I want to become an enlightened individual. Through the video i just saw I feel as if pessimism is non-existent.
Thank you