I am starting my blog this week with the launch of the new website for EarthTones and to explore different areas of music and healing. EarthTones (“Healing the World Through Music”) is a non-profit organization I founded to develop and share music-driven media projects that help raise social consciousness and connect us to ourselves and others across the globe. In these times of growing challenge and great shifts in the world, I believe it is important to provide the tools that can help us feel more balanced, be more connected and experience a greater sense of joy and well-being. Music, and the combination of music and visuals, has the power to do this on so many levels – many of which we are not even conscious of.

It addition to the launch of the EarthTones site and the very cool projects that we are working on, I am excited to share with you the long awaited Hear Music release this week of Mark Johnson’s Playing for Change CD and video.  Mark and Jonathan have traveled all over the world recording and filming musicans performing together across the globe on classic songs like “Stand by Me” and “One Love”.  Not only is it an amazing, entertaining and inspiring project, proceeds help build music schools for Children in Africa through the Playing for Change Foundation.

I look forward to sharing some of the great work being done in Music and Healing, as well as antedotes to bring us all a little more joy and inspiration.

Stand By Me -Playing for Change
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM[/youtube]

This video was created as part of the Playing for Change film. It includes musicians playing together from over a dozen countries and has already had over 8 million views.