Playing For Change: From YouTube Hit to Touring Band

Thursday October 07, 2010

From The Salt Lake Tribune

Playing For Change: From YouTube Hit to Touring Band
By David Burger

On Saturday, the Park City Performing Arts Foundation kicks off its 2010-11 season with a group of street musicians who have played for change.

But this time they are a band, Playing for Change. They’re hoping to bring people together, one venue at a time.

The 10-piece band of street musicians — hailing from seven countries — was organized by Grammy-winning music producer and engineer Mark Johnson.

In November 2008, Johnson posted a short YouTube video of street musicians from all over the world performing the classic 1961 King-Leiber-Stoller ballad “Stand by Me.” The video was unique in that Johnson recorded the musicians individually, and then layered the performances together, creating a crescendo of uplifting music that in some ways also demonstrated the innate unity of people.

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