The Year to Save the Earth - A Multimedia Experience by Jim Scott

Mixing powerful songs and beautiful projected images, "The Year to Save the Earth" takes us from celebration to grieving, protest to positive vision for the planet. Jim Scott's lyrical melodies and outspoken poetry celebrate what's beautiful, amazing, and fragile about our Earth. As well as hard reality, the program's message is one of optimism with many invitations to join in the singing. Facing the urgency of the environmental crisis, the musical and visual experience challenges us to feel, to learn and to act. Prolific composer, guitarist Jim Scott was awarded an NEA grant to present this multimedia concert in Worcester MA with band and chorus. He's also taking it on the road. Jim brings warmth and humor in his jazz and world music influenced songs as well as outspoken messages of peace, justice, and the Earth. He's played at more than 700 UU churches over four decades of travels. Formerly a member of the Paul Winter Consort, Jim was composer of their celebrated Missa Gaia/Earth Mass and sang their anthem song Common Ground. He has toured the world, recorded nine CDs of original music and published a growing line of choral works. One of the originators of the Unitarian Universalist Church "Green Sanctuary" program, Jim also compiled the Earth and Spirit Songbook, an anthology of 110 songs of Earth by many contemporary composers.