Credit Joe del Tufo-
On Wednesday, May 18th beginning at 7pm in the Emerson Cultural Center’s Crawford Theater, renowned pianist George Winston will perform a benefit concert in support of Hopa Mountain, a Bozeman-based nonprofit organization. This benefit concert will feature George’s Summer Show, including spring and summer songs, melodic folk piano songs from his recordings, Vince Guaraldi’s “Peanuts” pieces, and songs inspired by the New Orleans R&B piano tradition and the Harlem stride piano tradition.
Since 1972, George has released thirteen solo piano albums, and his latest releases are Love Will Come–The Music Of Vince Guaraldi Vol 2 (2010), and Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions 2–A Louisiana Wetlands Benefit (2012). For more information and to hear his music, visit georgewinston.com/. Tickets to this event are $20 per person. They can be purchased in advance at Cactus Records (online and in the store) and at the door. George Winston will also be holding a food drive for the Gallatin County Food Bank before the concert. Non-perishable food will be collected at the door. For more information, please call Hopa Mountain at (406) 586-2455 or e-mail info@hopamountain.org. Hopa Mountain invests in rural and tribal citizen leaders, adults and youth, that are working to improve education, ecological health, and economic development. Learn more at hopamountain.org/. •
