Sunday, March 21, at 9 p.m.

A story of hope, struggle, perseverance and joy. Playing for Change: Peace Through Music is part of a global effort to inspire peace through music and to connect diverse musicians worldwide, especially those in regions of conflict.

Grammy-winning producer/engineer Mark Johnson and his Playing for Change team traveled the globe 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, they 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 the artists essentially are all performing together, albeit hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Playing for Change: Peace Through Music is the story of this unparalleled international musical collaboration and its remarkable power of redemption.

Some of the magical moments include Ireland’s Omagh Community Youth Choir, comprising of a mixture of Catholic and Protestant teens, singing “Love Rescue Me,” written by U2 and Bob Dylan. The film begins with American street musicians Roger Ridley and Grandpa Elliott harmonizing with Clarence Bekker from the Netherlands amid an assembly of artists from Russia, Spain, Venezuela, France and Brazil on the Ben E. King/Leiber & Stoller classic “Stand by Me,” the video of which has already become an internet sensation.

Also included is an exhilarating version of the Bob Marley classic “War/No More Trouble.” This segment includes musicians from The Congo, Israel, India, Ireland, South Africa, the U.S., Zimbabwe and Ghana, along with Bono and Bob Marley.

Marley’s “One Love” proved to be an irresistible choice for the producers as well, who enlisted Keb’ Mo’ to sing with performers from India, Israel, Nepal, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

PLAYING FOR CHANGE songs include:

• “Stand By Me”
• “When the Saints Go Marching In”
• “Louisiana 1927”
• “Love Rescue Me”
• “Don’t Worry”
• “Sayit Sheni”
• “Thula Mama”
• “Umshado”
• “Victim Train”
• “Bint El Shalabiya”
• “War/No More Trouble”
• “Rachuvasmsa Sudha”
• “Tumko Dekha To Yeh Kyahaal Aaya”
• “One Love”
• “Better Man”