Showing posts with label Playing for Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Playing for Change. Show all posts

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Stand by Me



Last night Bill Moyers interviewed Mark Johnson, the co-director of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music: Playing for Change: Peace Through Music.
MARK JOHNSON: Well I think music is the one thing that opens the door to bringing people to a place where they are all connected. It is easy to connect to the world through music, you know. Religion, politics, a lot of those things they seem to divide everybody…
I've posted the music video here, but you can watch the entire interview on the PBS.org site.