Since January 2015, the Playing For Change Foundation has been working in the slums of Mirpur District of Dhaka, Bangladesh, to provide music education to underprivileged children. In this district, 32% of residents live below the national poverty line of $2 per day and child malnutrition rates are 48%. Illiteracy rates are among the highest … Read More
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Update From Tamale
For the past two weeks, the students at the Bizung School of Music and Dance and I have been working on a new song. The name of the song is “Zanma Bahi Kan Chan Torani” and it is a traditional song that is accompanied by the Tora Dance. We have been workshopping the piece to … Read More
Students Organize SoundRise Concert To Benefit PFCF
The Crooks performing at SoundRise The SoundRise concert is a project organised by French engineering students who want to have a positive impact on the world. Thus, on the 7th of June, more than two hundred students of the campus in Metz and from the East of France came together to enjoy bands from the … Read More
A New Van for Bizung
By Benjamin Cohen After about 10 months in Ghana, and a couple more months of fundraising after I returned to San Francisco, I have completed the last unresolved portion of my Fulbright-MTVu Fellowship proposal. Before I left for Ghana, I had hopes of learning about the musical history of Ghana and the current cultural … Read More
LET’S DANCE: Classrooms In Ghana And Philadelphia Exchange Videos Of Their Favorite Dance Moves
As part of a cross cultural learning project, students in West Africa and the Northeast United States have been recording videos of their classes performing some of their favorite dance moves and sharing them with each other. The PFCF Bizung School of Music and Dance in Tamale, Ghana, performed the “Pacha”, a traditional Ghanian dance … Read More
Our Gift To You! Tula Dedicates A Song For PFCF Music Students
This song, called “Sudafrica Canción Antigua”, was written by Uruguayan composer Ruben Rada and is a anthem against racism that advocates for equality between races.