The Year to Save the Earth – with Jim Scott
September 22 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
“The Year to Save the Earth” – A Multimedia Experience by Jim Scott
Join us on Sunday, September 22nd at 4:30 p.m. in Fellowship Hall for “The Year to Save the Earth”. Mixing powerful songs and beautiful projected images, The Year to Save the Earth takes us from grieving to celebration and from protest to positive vision for the planet. Jim’s lyrical melodies and outspoken poetry celebrate our beautiful, amazing, and fragile world. While facing the urgency of the environmental crisis, the program’s message is one of optimism with many invitations to join in the singing. These amazing songs challenge 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. Jim brings warmth and humor with his jazz and world music influenced songs. He’s visited over 700 UU Churches in 4 decades of travels and his songs are in our hymnbooks (“Gather the Spirit”, “May Your Life Be as a Song”, and more). 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, published a growing line of choral works, and created the Earth and Spirit Songbook, an anthology of over 100 songs of Earth by many contemporary composers.
