George Winston to play benefit in Bozeman

From Hopa Mountain

George Winston, one of the most recognized solo pianists in the world, will be playing a benefit concert Tuesday, May 12, at 7 p.m. in the Emerson Cultural Center’s Crawford Theater in support of Hopa Mountain, a Bozeman-based nonprofit organization.

The benefit concert will feature Winston’s “Winter Show,” including melodic fall and winter type songs, some of Vince Guaraldi’s “Peanuts” pieces, pieces inspired by the New Orleans piano and the stride piano traditions, and songs from his upcoming album, “Spring Carousel — A Cancer Research Benefit,” scheduled for release in 2015.

Tickets. which are $20 per person, can be purchased in advance at Cactus Records — online and in the store — and at the door.

Winston will also be holding a food drive for the Gallatin County Food Bank before the concert. Nonperishable food will be collected at the door.

Since 1972 Winston 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). His next solo piano album, “Spring Carousel — A Cancer Research Benefit,” will be released in 2015. For more information on Winston, people can visit http://www.georgewinston.com or http://www.facebook.com/georgewinstonpiano.

For more information on the May 12 benefit concert in Bozeman, people can call Hopa Mountain at 586-2455 or email [email protected]. Hopa Mountain invests in rural and tribal citizen leaders, adults and youth, who are working to improve education, ecological health and economic development.

Online: http://www.hopamountain.org.