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Solo Concerts
Jim is an accomplished, world-class musician with years of
international performance experience and an extensive repertoire of songs on
themes of peace, justice, personal healing, and care for the earth, including
an "oratorio" version of his musical, The Tree and Me. His virtuouso
guitar work, pure voice, and easy, honest presence are the foundation of a top-tier
aesthetic experience.
Jim's generous spirit welcomes interactive audience participation.
People find it easy to sing along with him. And his timely and relevant focus
on lasting issues of planetary importance add depth and dimension to the aesthetics.
An evening with Jim Scott is an inspiring event that will be fondly remembered
for some time to come.
Introduction / Biography
Musician and composer Jim Scott has earned the wide respect of audiences and
other musicians for lyrical music that furthers the ideals of ecology, justice,
and peace. For three decades he’s been reaching hearts and minds with
his own brand of harmony, intellegent lyrics and some virtuoso guitar craft.
Jim's music transcends boundaries and categories, spanning the jazz, classical,
folk, and popular music worlds. Guitarist for the Paul Winter Consort for many
years, Jim has gone on to create choral works, a stage musical, a book illustrating
his unigue guitar approach and several recordings of his songs. Lately Jim has
collected and arranged a collection songs of ecology and peace by many contemporary
songwriters. Book One of the “Earth and Spirit Songbook” is
now available. Jim is also working on a book of jazz choral arangements of hymns.
Along with this wide range of creativity, It’s still his lyrical songs,
speaking to all with direct and immediate messages, that remain Jim’s primary
work. A Jim Scott concert is a celebration of our connections with each other
- humanity of all cultures - and with the earth. His music has taken him around
the world and he makes his case for harmony with well crafted, intelligent and
at times humorous songs, poetry and stories.
Jim’s guitar fluency comes from classical and jazz training and experience,
and he uses it well with classical (nylon string), six and twelve-string, steel
string acoustics as well as an occasional foray to the electric.
Performing in schools for all ages, Jim has also created a big repertiore of
children’s songs. He often mixes his poetry, stories and music in lecture
concerts and church services celebrating environmental and peace issues.
With a long connection to Unitarian Universalist (UU) Church Jim has been active
with the UU Seventh Principle Project, developing “Green Sanctuary,” a
program eco-consciousness and activism for churches. In the last fifteen years
Jim has visited over 300 UU churches across the country, leading services, presenting
concerts, and offering workshops. Several of Jim’s songs are in the Unitarian
Universalist hymnbook. and has found wide use in many churches. Jim performs
in churches of other denominations and his hymn “Gather the Spirit” is
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Choral Concerts
Choirs and choral groups of all ages have been energized by
Jim's rich musical interests, classical training, and jazz and composition experience
on the Paul Winter Consort's celebrated Missa Gaia/Earth Mass.
Jim's arrangements for choir range from simple one- and two-part
treble voice pieces for elementary grades to challenging SATB compositions that
can feature him with a high-school or college choral group.
Jim has performed with youth choruses such as the Indianapolis
Children's Choir, Portland's Chrysalis youth Choir, and the Kansas City Academy
for the Arts.
A concert for more accomplished chorus might include formal
pieces by Jim along with Latin/Caribbean and rock styles from his CDs Earth,
Sky, Love and Dreams and Sailing with the Moon or his new choral oratorio Vessels
of the Sun.
For concert performance with choral groups, Jim provides arrangements
in typical SATB form, and participates in at least two rehearsals. This usually
requires a stay of three days.
Jim has performed with the University or Oregon Singers, The
Pacific Lutheran University Chorale, the Pomonona College Choir, the Choir of
Cal State Los Angeles, the Eugene Vocal Arts Ensemble, and the Concord Choir
of Portland.
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