When the Music Comes to Life: The Listen to the Music Series | Playing For Change

Before leaving for his band’s tour with Michael Franti, Come To Life’s Dustin Thomas sat down with members of the PFC band and artists from around the world to produce a series of exclusive interviews. In this first video of the series, PFC’s Co-Founder, Mark Johnson, shares some of the inspirations, artists, and messages behind the songs of the Listen to the Music series.
As Mark says in the interview, “In this particular body of work, we wanted to take these experiences we learned around the world and bring them back home to people...In a world of so many divisions, let’s focus on the connections.” Learn more by watching the first interview in the series.
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Come To life is an Artist Driven Music Collective fueled by its parent company Guayaki Yerba Mate, Guayaki's mission is to steward and restore 200,000 acres of South American Atlantic rainforest and create over 1,000 living wage jobs by 2020 by leveraging their Market Driven Regeneration business model. Guayaki's vision holds that yerba mate culture will power their Market Driven Regeneration business model to regenerate ecosystems and create vibrant communities.
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Playing For Change (PFC) is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music, born from the shared belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. The primary focus of PFC is to record and film musicians performing in their natural environments and combine their talents and cultural power in innovative videos called Songs Around The World. Creating these videos motivated PFC to form the Playing For Change Band—a tangible, traveling representation of its mission, featuring musicians met along their journey; and establish the Playing For Change Foundation—a separate 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to building music and art schools for children around the world. Through these efforts, Playing For Change aims to create hope and inspiration for the future of our planet.
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