Another great video from the great folks over at Playing For Change please help support the great mission and message of this organization.

In this era of constant global connectivity when disaster strikes the response time has been reduced from days to hours, to in some cases, minutes. This same premise holds true in the artistic world as artists have answered the beckoned call of need in Haiti. (more…)

A few months ago we did a post on Playing For Change and the wonderful work they are doing around the globe. You can read that entry here.

In this the 24th episode of the series Afro Fiesta performs the Peter Tosh original “Equal Rights”. Now, more than ever I believe that it is important that we focus on the incredible power that music has to unite and cultivate real social change.

Peace.

If you’ve been following the PFCF project, this episode shows a major accomplishment: the Ntonga Music School in Gugulethu, South Africa, PFCF’s very first completed school! The school now has a full schedule of music classes servicing youths ages 8-18 in this township just outside Cape Town. The episode also includes interviews from Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke Burditt about PFCF, its founding, and its mission.

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This was the first release from the award-winning documentary, Playing For Change: Peace Through Music. This is a great concept, and now a global movement that underscores the power of music.

Created by Mark Johnson, it has evolved into a corporation, Timeless Media, a non-profit, a touring band and a joint venture with Concord Music Group for marketing and distribution. Check them out and support the great work they’re doing. Awesome.

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Love this. Musically, socially, visually, technically and conceptually. We need more of this.

Last week Evan Roth was contacted to make a video for a Kanye West produced Jay-Z song from the new for film about B.I.G. as well as (RED)WIRE and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS in Africa. The finished product, which debuted just days later, avoids all the usual rap video cliches with striking resulst. “I’ve been turning down client requests to use Typographic Illustration for 5 years in hopes that one day the phone would ring ans it would be Hova,” says Roth. “I’m pretty sure that this is the first rap video to end with a download source code link.”

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