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It's a 40/50 year!
This will be seven-time Grammy®-winner Paul Winter's 40th Annual
Winter Solstice Celebration at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine
as the Paul Winter Consort also celebrates its 50th anniversary year.

Paul Winter's Winter Solstice Celebration has become New York's favorite holiday alternative to
The Nutcracker and Radio City's Christmas Spectacular. A dazzling extravaganza of music, dance, and spectacle within the awesome space and acoustics of the world's largest cathedral, the event is a contemporary take on ancient solstice rituals, when people felt a calling to come together on the longest night of the year to welcome the return of the sun and the birth of the New Year. The Winter Solstice Celebration has evolved over the years to inhabit the entirety of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The resounding acoustics have inspired the music of the event, and the vast dimensions of the Cathedral have given birth to unique theatrical elements. A 28-foot spiral “Solstice Tree,” adorned with a multitude of bells, gongs, and chimes symbolizing the diversity of the life family, becomes a part of the music; a huge Earth-globe travels through the Nave and rises over the center-stage; and a giant sun gong ascends, with its player, to the 100-foot vault of the Cathedral at the symbolic moment of the return of the sun.

Winter and his colleagues will be pulling out all the stops this December to celebrate this double anniversary of the Consort and the group's solstice event. Gospel singer Theresa Thomason, a beloved favorite of past Winter Solstice Celebrations, will be featured, and the 10-member Paul Winter Consort will be joined once again by the 25 dancers and drummers of the Forces of Nature Dance Theatre.
Special guest performers will be announced in the fall.

Concert is 2:00pm matinee, bus departs immediately after performance.

$75.00 includes roundtrip coach bus transportation, driver gratuity and ticket for concert.
Tickets are non-refundable once purchased