Stand By Me

I'm feeling rather sad today. Someone who was once a good friend passed away yesterday, at far too young an age. A link this video happened to land in my email box. I'm not sure if it made me feel better or worse, but it's good music.

It's from the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music," and comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently.

I'll confess, I'd never heard about this and have never seen the documentary, so I have no idea how good it is. But at The Playing For Change website, they say, "Playing for change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect and bring peace."

They intend to:

• Build and connect music schools around the world,
• Empower students to create/share their music (student performances will be recorded, filmed and shared with members), and
• Enable collaboration between students of our new schools and students from established schools in the U.S. and abroad.

Lofty goals! I wish them well. Everyone needs some music in their life.