Giving voice to an extraordinary effort to inspire peace through music and to connect diverse musicians worldwide, including those in conflict regions, Hear Music today announced the April 28 release of 'Playing For Change – Songs Around the World.'

The special CD/DVD package, available at participating Starbucks company-operated locations in the U.S. and Canada and at traditional retail worldwide, contains a ten-song audio CD as well as a seven-track DVD, which features five of the songs performed live. The DVD also includes a trailer for the forthcoming PFC documentary and information on the PFC Foundation.

Grammy winning producer/engineer Mark Johnson and his Playing For Change team traveled for a decade with a single minded passion to connect the world though music. Their ambitious journey took them from post-apartheid South Africa, through the ancient sites of the Middle East, to the remote beauty of the Himalayas and beyond.

Using innovative mobile technology, the PFC crew filmed and recorded more than 100 musicians, largely outdoors, in parks, plazas and promenades, in doorways, on cobblestone streets and amid hilly pueblos. Each captured performance created a new mix in which essentially the artists are all performing together, albeit hundreds or thousands of miles apart.

So, if you would like to win one of these wonderful new CD/DVDs, and you think you know all there is to know about how this came together, just answer this easy question: The relationship between Playing for Change and Hear Music was facilitated by legendary television producer Norman Lear, co-owner of which record label, which actually formed the Hear Music label with Starbucks in March 2007?!

Send us your answers and if you're correct you'll be in the running to win one of these new CD/DVDs! Just send us an e:mail here before June 1st with your answer and the subject title CONTEST: PLAYING FOR CHANGE CDs to: exclusivemagazine@flash.net

CD/DVD Purchase Link

Playing For Change – Songs Around the World “Stand By Me” Audio Stream

Playing For Change – Songs Around the World "One Love" Video Stream