Connected By Distance

Prelude to Peace

by Louis Landon

I live in a suburb of New York. I don’t really know any of my neighbors well. I have very little connection with the people in my physical community. The connection that I lack in my own community, I have found online. It feeds me in so many ways. It keeps me connected to what is happening in the world, and it keeps me in close contact with many people who I can have real relationships with and who I care about. It is also helping me find new fans of my music and my mission. My mission is to create a peaceful world by writing, recording, and performing music from the heart. 

The story that I would like to share here is about how my online community supported a very important concert series called “Prelude to Peace.” Featuring Stanton Lanier and Dana Cunningham, two other pianists for peace, we performed 4 concerts in the Washington, D.C. area. There was also an unofficial fifth concert at the International Student House that Dana and I performed. What was amazing to me was the power of my internet community. I had people at every one of our concerts who were online friends or fans. I am not talking about major numbers, but I see the direction that online social networking is going for me and I like what I see happening. It makes it possible for an indie recording artists, such as myself, to go into a new city or town and have an audience. I am really only at the beginning of this journey. But I really believe that as I continue to utilize all the social newtorks available, and connect it with my blog and my website, things will continue to move in a more positive direction. I believe that I can have the kind of strong fan base that indie artists used to find impossible. And my connection with these fans is very strong and very real. I truly know my fans. And I can stay connected with them online. 

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Louis Landon is a solo pianist for peace who performs concerts through the United States. You can visit his Web site or blog for more information.

Solo pianist, Louis Landon has dedicated his life to music. There’s no doubt about it, his passion is for peace. His career has taken him around the world playing a variety of styles with some of the most recognized names in the entertainment industry. He’s been on stage before hundreds of thousands of people alongside James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, Bruce Springsteen and many others using music as the vehicle to protest nuclear energy in the No Nukes Concerts of 1979. 

Landon’s seventh CD, and second solo piano release “Peace Revolution” launched earlier this year, and continues to receive radio airplay worldwide. This CD has remained on the Top 100 New Age charts for 10 consecutive months. “Skye’s Song” the CD’s third cut was No. 1 on Music Choice the music wing of the cable network. He’s been interviewed on several NPR stations in support of “Peace Revolution” coinciding with critically favorable reviews of the 12-track CD. His first solo piano CD, “unwind” rose to No. 3 on the NAR charts and was nominated for Best CD of 2006, and Best Solo Piano CD of 2006 in the New Age Reporter Lifestyle Awards.