Paul Winter Consort

A Celebration of the Earth

"The Paul Winter Consort's profound involvement with environmental issues has given its music an almost Emersonian aura and purity of purpose." - Jazz Time

Just in time for the winter solstice, Grammy Award-winning saxophonist, bandleader, and composer Paul Winter will be joined by an array of outstanding musicians from different musical backgrounds as the Paul Winter Consort celebrates the earth and all it's creatures and cultures, bringing vitality through music and awakening people to the plight of endangered species through the beauty of their sounds. This unique "Earth Music" has developed over the past thirty-eight years, as the Consort performed in over 2,000 concerts in major concert halls of the Americas, Europe, and Asia, as well as cathedrals such as Washington's National Cathedral, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and New York's St. John the Divine, where they are artists in residence. Winter has also performed in such places as the White House, the Grand Canyon, the Negev Desert in Israel, and the palace of the Crown Prince of Japan.

Explorer of the world's musical traditions, Paul Winter has created an award-winning body of work that transcends categories, reflecting his wide-ranging experiences in the musical traditions and natural environments of the earth. Winter's musical realm has long embraced the traditions of many world cultures, interweaving widely diverse instruments and elements with the extraordinary voices from what he refers to as "the greater symphony of the earth," including wolves, whales, eagles, and several dozen other species of 'wilderness musicians.' Winter is the winner of four Grammy Awards and six Grammy nominations; his concert tours and recording expeditions have taken him to thirty-seven countries and to wilderness areas on six continents, into which he has traveled on rafts, mules, dog sleds, horses, kayaks, sailboats, steamers, tugboats, and Land Rovers.