‘The Year to Save the Earth’ – by Jim Scott

Jim Scott WEST PARIS — 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 – and some fun. Jim Scott’s lyrical melodies and outspoken poetry celebrate what’s beautiful, amazing, and fragile about our Earth. Facing the urgency of the environmental crisis, this musical and visual experience challenges us to feel, learn, and act.

Prolific composer and guitarist Jim Scott was awarded an NEA grant to create and present this multimedia concert. Jim has visited more than 700 Unitarian Universalist (UU) churches over 4 decades and his songs are in the UU Hymnbooks (Gather the Spirit). He helped create the UU Green Sanctuary program and with a grant from the Fund for UUism compiled the Earth and Spirit Songbook, an anthology of 110 songs of Earth by many contemporary composers.



Formerly a member of the Paul Winter Consort, Jim was the composer of their celebrated Missa Gaia/Earth Mass and sang their anthem song, “Common Ground”. A long-time friend of folk icon Pete Seeger, Jim credits Pete with influencing his musical career choices. Pete in turn called Jim “some kind of a magician.

” Paul Winter said of his collaborator: “His music sings of the life spirit.” Jim has toured the world, recorded nine CDs of original music, and published a growing line of choral works. The event takes place at 2 p.

m. at the First Universalist Church of West Paris. Suggested donation is $20.

Jim will also lead the church service at the First Universalist Church of West Paris at 9 a.m. on the 29th titled, “A Healing for the World”.

For more information, please contact Marta Clements, 207-674-2143, [email protected], or Suzanne Dunham, 207-665-2967, [email protected].

The First Universalist Church of West Paris is located at 208 Main St. in W. Paris.

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