Sentence examples for play for change from inspiring English sources

It evokes memories of thin French fries at O'Neal's Balloon after a concert, of a first Met opera ("Don Giovanni," eighth row!), of balmy nights accompanied by the strains of the fountain, when we would put out a music case and play for change on the other side of Columbus Avenue (the guards would not let performers in the plaza).

Photograph: /Hollis Bennett A Nashville musician playing for change.

The remainder of the evening was spent at the Greek American Retirement Club, where cards are played for change and the men are friendlier.

You may have noticed on your last trip to Acapulco that the mariachi bands playing for change outside your hotel room are looking older.

The growing success of global fusion styles was also demonstrated by American producer Mark Johnson with his Playing for Change album, Songs Around the World.

Hyde would suggest to Bernard Shaw if he doesn't want to be left behind, he had better exchange his vegetable diet for good red meat and write virile plays for change.

The Sundance Channel is preceding the special with an odd choice, "Biloxi Blues" (1988), Neil Simon's comedy about boot camp in Mississippi, at 5 p.m.; and a less odd one, "Playing for Change," a 2003 documentary about street musicians (some in New Orleans), at 6 45.

Since that video went up on YouTube, in 2009, it has been viewed more than seventy-four million times, and Johnson's organization, Playing for Change, has found great success building music schools around the globe, reducing isolation, one note at a time.

Playing For Change sees a united people finding their way.

It's a new global kind of groove," says Playing For Change founder Mark Johnson.

* Playing for Change has created a multi-continent collaborative Song Around the World video of Guantanamera.