Solstice Gems
Paul Winter Consort & Special Guests
Released 2002
Run Time: Disc 1 – 62 min 13 sec; Disc 2 – 57 min 1 sec
Produced by: Paul Winter and Dixon Van Winkle
©℗2002 Earth Music Productions, LLC
Solstice Gems is a 2-disc National Public Radio Special Retrospective celebrating 20 years of Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebrations at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The album features the Paul Winter Consort and their special guests, including Theresa Thomason, Pete Seeger, Susan Osborn, Davy Spillane, Noirin Ni Riain, Mickey Hart, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Luciana Souza, Oscar Castro-Neves, Arto Tuncboyaciyan and the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble.
“Central to all the traditions of Solstice is the renewal of spirit, symbolized by the rebirth of the sun. Winter Solstice is a time for healing and for hope. It is a time to celebrate community and relatedness and a time to honor the diversity and the unity of this great cornucopia of life on Earth. ”
– Paul Winter
Performers:
Paul Winter | soprano saxophone
Eugene Friesen | cello
Paul Halley | piano, organ
Russ Landau | bass
Glen Velez | percussion
Sammy Figueroa | percussion
Cafe | percussion
Gordon Gottlieb | drums
Rhonda Larson | flute
Nancy Rumbel | English horn
Susan Osborn | voice
Jim Scott | guitar
Dorothy Papadakos | organ
Arto Tunçboyacıyan | sazabo, voice
Jordan Rudess | keys
Paul Sullivan, piano
Davy Spillane | Uilleann pipes
Pete Seeger | guitar, vocal
Kecia Lewis-Evans | voice
Nilson Matta | bass
Paul Meyers | guitar
Luciana Souza | voice
Oscar Castro-Neves | guitar
Mark Perchanok | heckelphone
Jamey Haddad | percussion
Scott Sloan | sun gong
Noirin Ni Riain | voice
Eliot Wadopian | bass
Gordon Bok | guitar
Dimitri Donders | French hunting horn
The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble: Dmitri Pokrovsky, Maria Nefedova, Alexander Danilov, Elena Sidorenko, Sergei Zhirkov, Tamara Smyslova, Arthur Partosh, Anna Konukhova, Andrei Kotov, Nini Savistkaya, Dmitri Fokin, Vladimir Teplov, Irina Ponomaryova, Sergei Grigoriev, voice
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