Stand By Me

After a completely depressing post yesterday how about something more cheerful and uplifting?

My friend Bill, in a lecture on campus this week, introduced me to Playing for Change. One of the things Playing for Change does is to travel the world over getting street musicians to listen to recordings of each other and then to add their voice to the song. These voices and instrumentals are then mixed together. The end product is as thrilling as it is diverse. Here's Playing for Change's version of that classic song Stand by Me: