......... day 54

Hello Again Kats & Kittens, Friend & Fiend,

Music is important, sharing music, dancing, feeling alive & whole at a concert…tingly, right? Master FOO Dave Grohl has words…he said them in The Atlantic Mag a few days back…..thanks ES for sending it our way…..check below☟

Housekeeping bits…..new playlist upstairs☝︎ on the HITPLAY button…. COVID-19 PLAYLIST 9….All CLAUDIO VILLA with bonus tracks…. Tune in but maybe later?…we have today’s missive to digest.

ONWARD!

Tears will form, if you have a beating heart with a beat… Today we visit PLAYING FOR CHANGE…..fine fine fine org….their belief that, in this batty as a nutcake world, music spreads love & understanding…. that we are all connected……by music.

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A single tune played by single distant musicians, filmed, edited, mixed as one performance, a band of sorts. Insane right? Not so much…try this out… THE BAND’s 1968 classic, “The Weight”, with song scribe Robbie Robertson in the lead….

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We're excited to share our newest Song Around The World, "The Weight," featuring musicians performing together across 5 continents. Great songs can travel ev...

Tears right? Gooseflesh yes? Smiles for sure!

This world shindig was born in 2002, MARK JOHNSON & WHITNEY KROENKE eyeing an idea…recording musicians, mics & vids all over the planet…put it together as a world song….they struck in 2005 with street muso Roger Ridley playing “Stand By Me” on the streets of Santa Monica, LALA…Magic happened…

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In 2005, we recorded Roger Ridley on the streets of Santa Monica playing "Stand By Me." This original live performance was the starting point of our first So...

How about some audio? From the PLAYING FOR CHANGE 2009 live recording, the starter “Stand By Me”, plus “Get Up Stand Up”, & “Better Man”.

Wonderful for driving right? But videos are what makes this ticker tick…cohension forms…focus…smiles appear.

Here’s “Chanda Mama” a redo from early on vid, this a 10th Anniv. version.

It's hard to believe it's been over 10 years since we first released "Stand By Me," "One Love," "War / No More Trouble," "Don't Worry," and "Chanda Mama" aro...

P4C has produced a number of live performance albums, bringing these disparate artists together for a concert show………..wonder when that sort of thing will happen in our future?……maybe nev—…don’t go there.

Here’s four from the Playing for Change 3: Songs Around the World album. “Reggae Got Soul”, “Down by the Riverside”, “What’s Goin’ On”, “Guantanamera”

Another wonderful Vid, this tune is originally from the wonderful BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB……“Chan Chan”.

This song reached the masses from the Buena Vista Social Club project and I have heard so many variations and versions performed around the world ever since....

A big part of PLAYING FOR CHANGE is music school outreach, worldwide. The PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION does this through your donations & some investing by wise corps (they’re not all soulless barbarians). Schools have been created in Bangladesh, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Ghana, Argentina, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, Morocco, Argentina & Thailand.

Over 2000 students…taught by qualified locals…for FREE…applause? You bet.

We’ll end today with P4C’s version of the SAM COOKE classic. “A Change Is Gonna Come”, we hope so,

From the 2009, Playing for Change Live LP…tears get ready…

Thanks to the folks at P4C for making tour little marble a little brighter….

Thanks for listening, until tomorrow.

Peace & Distance.