Playing For Change, the multimedia company responsible for the popular ‘Songs Around The World’ video series, has announced it will host We Are One, a concert benefitting the Playing For Change Foundation and celebrating 10 years of positive change through music.
Official partners for the event include Los Angeles’ premier rock radio station 95.5 Klos, La Weekly, and Japan-based music app Nana. The concert will take place on Tuesday, October 3, at the historic Mayan Theater in downtown Los Angeles and feature performances from The Doobie Brothers members Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons, and John McFee; as well as Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett from Little Feat; The Playing For Change Band, that features 10 respected musicians from 10 different countries; world-renowned drummer James Gadson; The Ambassador of Soul, Ellis Hall; legendary harmonica player Lee Oskar; and more. Ticketing options include an exclusive VIP experience with a pre-show meet and greet reception with The Doobie Brothers and musicians,...
Official partners for the event include Los Angeles’ premier rock radio station 95.5 Klos, La Weekly, and Japan-based music app Nana. The concert will take place on Tuesday, October 3, at the historic Mayan Theater in downtown Los Angeles and feature performances from The Doobie Brothers members Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons, and John McFee; as well as Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett from Little Feat; The Playing For Change Band, that features 10 respected musicians from 10 different countries; world-renowned drummer James Gadson; The Ambassador of Soul, Ellis Hall; legendary harmonica player Lee Oskar; and more. Ticketing options include an exclusive VIP experience with a pre-show meet and greet reception with The Doobie Brothers and musicians,...
- 8/24/2017
- Look to the Stars
Tribeca Film Festival, Professor Clayton Christensen
And Disruptor Foundation Announce Honorees
For Third Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
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Awards to highlight successful disruptive innovation in non-traditional, identity-based domains such as culture, education, healthcare, philanthropy, politics, religion and social entrepreneurship
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Twitter and Square Founder Jack Dorsey and Room to Read Founder John Wood to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honorees; .Thinking, Fast and Slow. by Daniel Kahneman named Book of the Year; Award Winners Also Include Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun, Rick Rubin, Pat Metheny, Edward Burns
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), in association with noted Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, announced it will hold the third annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by Nyu Stern School of Business, on April 27. The 11th edition of Tff runs April 18 to 29.
Lifetime Achievement Awards will be given to Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square, and John Wood, founder of Room to Read.
And Disruptor Foundation Announce Honorees
For Third Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
***
Awards to highlight successful disruptive innovation in non-traditional, identity-based domains such as culture, education, healthcare, philanthropy, politics, religion and social entrepreneurship
***
Twitter and Square Founder Jack Dorsey and Room to Read Founder John Wood to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honorees; .Thinking, Fast and Slow. by Daniel Kahneman named Book of the Year; Award Winners Also Include Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun, Rick Rubin, Pat Metheny, Edward Burns
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), in association with noted Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, announced it will hold the third annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by Nyu Stern School of Business, on April 27. The 11th edition of Tff runs April 18 to 29.
Lifetime Achievement Awards will be given to Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square, and John Wood, founder of Room to Read.
- 4/3/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Using music as a tool to bring about social change on a global scale is nothing new. For anyone old enough to recall the 1980s, the embodiment of this (and the worst excesses of that decade's hairstyling and fashion) is surely the original Band-Aid, Live-Aid and USA for Africa events.
Those gatherings helped to kick start the music-for-change movement because they benefited from the involvement of many stars. Their legacy, however, has been many less widely publicized music-based campaigns that face the added challenge of having no big names to attract the media. Playing for Change is one such movement. Backed by the Playing For Change Foundation (Pfcf), the aim of the project is to bring about positive social change through music and education.
Playing for Change was born out of the efforts of a small group of filmmakers who wanted to produce a documentary about street musicians from around the world.
Those gatherings helped to kick start the music-for-change movement because they benefited from the involvement of many stars. Their legacy, however, has been many less widely publicized music-based campaigns that face the added challenge of having no big names to attract the media. Playing for Change is one such movement. Backed by the Playing For Change Foundation (Pfcf), the aim of the project is to bring about positive social change through music and education.
Playing for Change was born out of the efforts of a small group of filmmakers who wanted to produce a documentary about street musicians from around the world.
- 8/6/2010
- CinemaSpy
I have nothing against the idea of the latest fundraising video for Haiti because the cause is certainly a great one; it's just that I tire of the usual bevy of First World entertainers belting it out. That's why it's refreshing to meet someone like Mark Johnson, one of the founders of Playing for Change. By now you've all probably heard about this organization through the widely seen globetrotting video of Stand By Me. The first time I saw it, I thought it was pleasant enough, but what was it for, what was the next step -- what was the substance? Mark clarified it all for me in an eloquent interview, in which he laid out a vision for using music as a catalyst for social change. I've heard my share of pie-in-the-sky blah blah about using music for this...
- 2/23/2010
- by Michal Shapiro
- Huffington Post
Momentum has continued to build for the project as founder Mark Johnson and the musicians of Playing For Change were just named .Persons of the Week. on ABC.s .World News Tonight with Charlie Gibson.. This honor came after Johnson.s return from a triumphant keynote speaking appearance at the internationally renowned Ted (Technology, Education & Design) Conference in Oxford, England. From the band: Playing For Change has been profiled many times nationally including NPR.s Morning Edition, CBS News Sunday Morning and PBS. Bill Moyers Journal just to name a few. Meanwhile, the Playing For Change band recently performed a thunderous set headlining the world stage at England.s Glastonbury Festival, played before a rapturous audience at Tipitina.s, New Orleans.
- 8/8/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Filed under: TV Royalty, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Documentary, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
One of the things that never gets old about the press tour is that at any moment, you could be in the middle of a blow-your-mind, surreal pop culture moment. That's exactly what happened to me yesterday evening, as the PBS sessions were wrapping up.
Patti Smith had the last session, to promote her biographical movie on Pov called Patti Smith: Dream of Life. It was fascinating, as she was pretty open with the reporters about why she let filmmaker Steven Sebring into her life for eleven years, what she likes to watch on YouTube (Maria Callas for one) and all sorts of fun stuff. But I had to leave to interview another legend, Norman Lear, who was there with producer Mark Johnson to promote the documentary Playing For Change: Peace Through Music.
When we were done with the interview,...
One of the things that never gets old about the press tour is that at any moment, you could be in the middle of a blow-your-mind, surreal pop culture moment. That's exactly what happened to me yesterday evening, as the PBS sessions were wrapping up.
Patti Smith had the last session, to promote her biographical movie on Pov called Patti Smith: Dream of Life. It was fascinating, as she was pretty open with the reporters about why she let filmmaker Steven Sebring into her life for eleven years, what she likes to watch on YouTube (Maria Callas for one) and all sorts of fun stuff. But I had to leave to interview another legend, Norman Lear, who was there with producer Mark Johnson to promote the documentary Playing For Change: Peace Through Music.
When we were done with the interview,...
- 8/3/2009
- by Joel Keller
- Aol TV.
Already a Youtube sensation, the music of "Playing for Change-Songs Around the World" is coming to your neighborhood.The project features artists like U2's Bono and Keb' Mo' singing with local musicians around the globe. Playing for Change is the creation of Grammy-winning producer/engineer Mark Johnson. Ten years ago, he and his team started traveling the world, capturing street performers, local musicians, choirs-basically anyone with a song in their heart-singing certain songs about love, peace and change. His travels took him to South Africa, the Middle East, Ireland and beyond. One of the songs, the classic "Stand by Me," features American street...
- 3/13/2009
- Hitfix
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