It's part of a project called Playing For Change that brings together musicians from all over the world to help (and inspire) peace and communities in need. It's worth watching Mark Johnson's interview with Bill Moyers. He talks about how music connects us all and he brought his small team to places (many dangerous) all over the world to record musicians...it's taken him ten years to get it this far...I cry because we need more people like him.
He got the idea one day while in the subway...he was walking by and saw monks all dressed in white singing in a language he didn't know. He looked around and realized that over 200 people had gathered, had stopped their busy day to listen to this music and realized it was a uniting factor. People have said he's naive for thinking his project could work to help unite the communities of the world...his response?
"It's naive to think we have any other choice."
Here are two very moving videos---I dare you to watch these and not fall on the floor a mess and turn into a sobbing wreck of a human being!
Stand by Me
One Love (It isn't Bob, but somewhere he's glad we got the point)
