PLAYING FOR CHANGE: Peace Through Music To Air On PBS

Playing For Change features Collaborations with Musicians Around the World, Including Keb' Mo', Bono and Bob Marley. The special will be airing throughout August on PBS - check your local listings.

Select moments of the special include:
- Ireland's Omagh Community Youth Choir, comprised of Catholic and Protestant teens, singing "Love Rescue Me," written by U2 and Bob Dylan
- American street musicians Roger Ridley and Grandpa Elliott harmonizing with Clarence Bekker from the Netherlands amid an assembly of artists from Russia, Spain, Venezuela, France and Brazil.
- "War/No More Trouble" (penned by Bob Marley) performed by musicians from The Congo, Israel, India, Ireland, South Africa, the U.S., Zimbabwe and Ghana.


About Playing for Change

Playing for Change began a decade ago, the brainchild of Grammy-winning music producer and engineer Mark Johnson. In 1998 Mark teamed with producer Whitney Kronke Burditt to create the award-winning Playing for Change: A Cinematic Discovery of Street Music (2004). The relationship between Playing for Change and Hear Music (the joint venture between Concord and Starbucks) was facilitated by legendary television producer Norman Lear, owner of Concord Music Group.

Seeing great need in many of the locations where the crew filmed and recorded inspired PFC to establish the Playing for Change Foundation, a distinct non-profit entity which provides resources - including facilities, technology, musical instruments and education - to musicians and their communities. The Foundation's first project, the Ntonga Music School in South Africa, was completed in January 2009. Its second, the Mehlo Arts Center in Johannesburg, will open later in 2009.

Playing for Change is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit the website: www.PlayingForChange.com.