Presentations

Grammy Award-winning producer Mark Johnson traveled the world, recording and filming street musicians of different faiths, backgrounds, and ethnicities, and blended their contributions into one unified and moving performance. The final product aired as a documentary on PBS called Playing For Change: Peace Through Music, and a collection of musicians from the film came together for a live performance at the 2009 SXSW festival as the Playing for Change Band. The group's fervent delivery of blues, gospel, reggae and Afropop has led to an amazing run of sold out shows, moving audiences worldwide and earning their album, Playing for Change-Songs Around the World, a remarkable debut on Billboard's Top 10.