Although I am a deeply cynical person - certainly when it comes to the fickle fads of our media driven world - I am sufficiently curious and engaged to not only experiment with my little blog but to sample the frequently real and inspired talent out there on the world-wide-web.
This morning I was reading/watching Mercedes Bunz's excellent Viral Video Chart post in the Guardian on-line edition and somewhere in my meanderings came across a link to the Playing for Change web site.
Playing for Change is a slick but heartwarming entity that was founded to support music education especially in politically and economically challenged areas of the world. The production values are so high that is often hard to know whether a given segment (see the video below) is of a stunning street artist or is of a celebrity musician who has volunteered their time for the project.
I just hope that the street musicians are benefitting from this as much as the PFC organization.
Some of my correspondents will know already that, some time ago,
I was blown away by the wonderful performance, posted on
You Tube of the Chooky Dancers from Elcho Island of the coast
of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
I see from the associated videos that they have been discovered and
have even appeared on Australia's Got Talent. This may well be
good news for these talented young men but for me it is
diabolically awful to see such amazing talent reduced to
a carnival side show.
Yikes, I've just realized, I'm one of the imbeciles in the
sideshow audience!!!!!
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