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Interview: Clarence Bekker of Playing for Change

Clarence Bekker

Words by Ryan Schleicher

Today I had the pleasure to interview Clarence Bekker. He’s performing tonight with Playing for Change at The Pabst Theater at 8PM. If you have never seen the Playing for Change documentary, you’re missing one of the most powerful messages through music ever documented.

Here’s the audio interview where we talk about how he – a full-time street musician – was discovered for the project, the experience of now touring the world, and he even busts into a  few acapella seconds of Sam Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come. What a voice…

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