Jimmy Barnes Stars In The Song Room’s PlayAir Campaign

Jimmy Barnes Stars In The Song Room’s PlayAir Campaign

Australian rock idol Jimmy Barnes is featuring in a new, national television campaign aimed at driving funds to buy musical instruments for underprivileged kids. Three out of four children in Australia do not have access to specialist music education at school.

The new campaign is for The Song Room and has been developed and produced by Department of the Future, an independent content agency that specialises in entertainment, education and brand promotion.

The focus of the new work is on The Song Room’s annual fundraiser PlayAir, which capitalises on the popular recreation of “air guitar” where people pretend to play guitar to actual music tracks. PlayAir encourages people to spend $2 at JB HiFi outlets to buy an “air instrument” with the donation leading to the purchase of real instruments for kids in schools throughout Australia.

“Air guitar has a massive following in Australia and Jimmy Barnes is such a legend to many Australians that the two elements become quite powerful,” said Department of the Future (DOTF) managing director Ivan Gomez.

“It’s also a nice family story because Jimmy’s daughter Mahalia Barnes directed the spot for us.”

The Song Room is a national not-for-profit organisation that impacts the futures of Australia’s most disadvantaged children with tailored music and arts programs, delivered in partnership with schools across the country. The programs are independently proven to lift the academic performance, school attendance, social-emotional wellbeing and community involvement of Australian school children.

“It is a privilege to be working with The Song Room and to work with Jimmy and Mahalia Barnes, who donated their considerable talents and time to this great cause,” said Gomez.

PlayAir is live across Australia now and runs to late October.

Credits:
Talent: Jimmy Barnes
Client: The Song Room
Agency: Department of the Future
Campaign: PlayAir fundraiser
Executive Producer: Ivan Gomez
Producer: Dee Huynh
Director: Mahalia Barnes
DOP: Aleksei Vanamois  –
Editor: Mari Adams
Motion Graphics: Mari Adams
Head of Production: Jess Fogarty
Postproduction supervisor: James Watterston




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