PREVIEW Playing For Change in Calgary

Tuesday October 12, 2010

From The Calgary Herald

Sounds of Change to be heard in Calgary: Global musical act makes a difference by embracing the power of song
By Stephen Hunt

Sometimes — not very often, but sometimes — it takes a mall to change the world.

At least, it was a mall where the people behind Playing for Change, who perform Wednesday night at McEwan Hall at the University of Calgary, had their aha moment that turned a small, idealistic project into a global movement that’s changing things for the better.

The mall in question was Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade, an outdoor mall that’s basically Stephen Avenue Walk if it were two blocks from the ocean and in the heart of Hollywood. What separates the Third Street Promenade from most malls is that one of its main attractions has always been the high calibre of buskers and street musicians performing for shoppers, who pay them by throwing some money in a guitar case or purchasing one of their CDs.

One of the finest was the late Roger Ridley, a gravel-throated, 50-something blues singer.

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