2. Avantgarde Jazz Festival: Playing For Change
Bill Moyers thinks this is an excellent example of the “simple, yet transforming power of music… capable of touching something in each of us."
Bill Moyers thinks this is an excellent example of the “simple, yet transforming power of music… capable of touching something in each of us." Variety wrote this was “a great example of incredible and quite accessible music made across the world”. Started a decade ago thanks to an idea of Mark Johnson, a Grammy-winning music producer, Playing for Change represents a quite unusual project aiming to unite musicians and vocalists from most different parts of the world and intrigue the audience with a multimedia movement dedicated to inspiring and connecting people and bringing peace to the world through music. Using innovative mobile audio and video technologies, the Playing for Change (PFC) project includes onsite recording in cities and communities across the world. The team members have traveled from New Orleans after the Katrina hurricane to South Africa after the apartheid, from the inaccessible beauty of the Himalayans to the religious diversity of Jerusalem. The talented artists have been recorded in extremely diverse situations – under the sun and beneath street lights… in public parks, on squares and promenades... in street hallways, stone-paved alleys and hilly villages. Their performances were then combined in a whole that has enabled them to cooperate despite being hundreds or even thousands of miles apart.
