Song for Peace

 

80% of the song sales income goes to the organisation Peace One Day. Buy it here on CD Baby. If any problems viewing it here, try it on YouTube.

 

Tooting resident Steve Woodman tells the story behind this beautiful song produced locally and filmed at the Rookery in Streatham:

 

“On 21st September 2010, I saw a film documentary called The Day After Peace, at a private screening at the ‘Exhibit’ Bar/restaurant in Balham hosted by Mel Larsen (who founded ‘the little big peace event’) the wife of my friend and music producer Peter.

 

It was a film put together by Jeremy Gilley in September 1999 to document his efforts to create an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date of 21st September.

 

I was so inspired and taken aback by his enthusiasm for international peace and all the effort he went to, to successfully get the United Nations General Assembly to formally establish this day of global ceasefire and non-violence, that I felt compelled to write a song as a contribution.

 

A few months later I met Rye Abanag a singer from the Philippines at an ‘Open Mic Night’ in Tooting. Rye is a native Indian of the Cordillera region of the Philippines and proud to be an ‘Igorot’, she started singing in a choir at church when she was still 8 years old and won the ‘Magic countryhan most wanted singing cowboy/cowgirl’ competition in the Philippines in 2005. She loves country lifestyle and is inspired by the singer Tracy Chapman and at the moment is exploring different music genres to get to know her voice capabilities.

 

When I saw her perform live that night I thought her voice was fantastic and knew she could easily bring out the emotion and feeling I wanted to project in this song.

 

The song was produced by Peter Larsen, and we had a film directed and produced by Tony Sphikas to go with it, which was shot in the ‘Rookery’ Streatham common.

 

Rye will be singing the song live at the reception for the screening of The Day After Peace at Streatham Odeon and at the White Lion event.”

 

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