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Playing For Change

Playing for Change is a foundation and multimedia online music project created by producer Mark Johnson and his Timeless Media Group, in conjunction with Concord Music Group that seeks to bring together musicians from around the world. The project started in 2004 with the organization's self described goal to "inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music". The creators of the project travelled around the world to places such as New Orleans, Moscow, Zimbabwe, Tibet and using a mobile recording studio...

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Marshall & The Fro

Marshall & The FRO create Aussie blues & roots rock music; music that feels so natural and so comfortable it's like slipping into your favorite pair of double pluggers and heading down to the pub for a coldie. Forming in 2003 and performing ever since, Marshall & The FRO is: Marshall Okell on guitar & slide guitar, Nick the Fro Ohlson on Bass and Jake the poods Mann on drums & percussion. Marshall & The FRO's music is dynamic and diverse. Featuring Marshall's strong Delta sounding vocals and guitar style, the band and their music has an appeal that's beyond conscious control.

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byron bay bluesfest 2009

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Gary Fletcher

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ealing blues festival

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Ben Parker

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Blue Harlem

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Smarton Trio

The band's new album, Smarton trio + 1 was released in december 2008. After the first cool and jazzy trio album (I don't know yet, 2006), the band is going on with more intense and energic rocky sounds, space bossa, chewin' gum-surf, or smooth psychedelics, while keeping the freedom of jazz improvisation. The music has live partying aspects and more introspective, like film-music aspects too.

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Ledfoot

A.k.a. Tim Scott.
Ledfoot was born in Fort Myers Florida at the palm and pine trailor park in 1958. He grew up traveling around in the states and went to 19 schools as his dad was a boilermaker. He started playing in biker bars in florida at about 15. His first records were with the band The Rockats. Then he did a couple of solo CD´s for Island Records (1983) and Sire Records (1985) as Tim Scott. He got well known in Europe as the singer in the band The Havalinas in the late 80s. He has been opening for everybody from The Cramps, The Clash to Kiss and Bob Dylan.

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Booker T. Jones

Booker T. Jones (born November 12, 1944) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for fronting the band, Booker T. and the MGs. Born in South Memphis, Tennessee, Jones was a child prodigy, playing the oboe, saxophone, trombone, and piano at school and serving as organist at his church. He attended Booker T. Washington High School, the alma mater of Rufus Thomas and shared the hallowed halls with future stars like Isaac Hayes's writing partner David Porter; saxophonist Andrew Love of The Memphis Horns; soul singer/songwriter William Bell and Earth...

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Ruthie Foster

If you haven’t yet been introduced to the music of this prodigiously gifted singer and songwriter from Texas, you’re in for a major epiphany. And if you’ve been following Foster’s career ever since her self-released, 1997 debut, Full Circle, or even since her 2002 breakthrough, Runaway Soul, you’re in for an even bigger surprise, because you really haven’t ever heard Foster until you hear her now. Simply put, mama’s gotta brand new bag.

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Spock's Beard

Spock's Beard is a progressive rock band formed in 1992 in Los Angeles by brothers Neal and Alan Morse. Neal (keyboards/vocals) and Alan (guitars) were joined by fellow musicians Nick D'Virgilio (Nick D'Virgilio, drums - also known as NDV) and Dave Meros (bass), and were later joined by veteran keyboardist Ryo Okumoto. Spock's Beard play a brand of progressive rock with pop music leanings, drawing much influence from Genesis and The Beatles. They are also well known for their intricate multi-part vocal harmonies and use of counterpoint much in the vein of Gentle Giant.