On Tuesday, Brad Paisley tweeted a photo and a note that last week he’d begun filming on location in Haiti for his recently announced film, inspired by his current hit single, “I Can’t Change the World.” And Brad says that Haiti not only figures prominently in the upcoming movie, it’s also a place — and a cause — that’s become very important to him. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

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• Brad and his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, have been volunteers and supporters of Live Beyond, a Nashville nonprofit with a mission to provide medical care, clean water, nutritional support, and development activities to impoverished communities in Haiti. As previously announced, $1 from each ticket sale on Brad’s Beat This Summer Tour is being donated to Live Beyond. For more information or to make a direct donation, visit LiveBeyond.org.
• “I Can’t Change the World” is the third single from Brad’s acclaimed Wheelhouse album, already home to the back-to-back number-one hits, “Beat This Summer” and “Southern Comfort Zone.”
• Look for Brad on the cover of Guitar One Presents Country Guitar magazine, out now…click here for more info!

  Brad Paisley says that Haiti figures prominently in his upcoming film based on his song, “I Can’t Change the World.” (:49)
“One of the major plotlines of this movie involves an orphan in Haiti and her situation and the woman that wants to adopt her, and, you know, and that’s a major cause for me. I really have started to feel very strongly about our responsibility as the United States of America, closest to the poorest nation in the world, which is Haiti. It’s ours to fix, and when you go there, and you see how messed up that place is, it’s just…it’s one of those things where you’re just thinkin’ to yourself, ‘How do we do this?’ You know, ‘Where do we start?’ Well, it’s…you start with the orphan that…like, I bonded with a particular orphan at an orphanage where we go where he and I…he was an orphan that was really good at drawing. He had a great artistic ability. We sat down and drew for two hours.”