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George Winston is a Michigan-based pianist who basically grew up in Miles City, Montana alongside spending time in Florida and Mississippi. He is best recognized for studio albums Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi released in 1996, and Love Will Come: The Music of Vince Guaraldi released in 2010. His early works including the album Autumn, December as well as Winter into Spring, which he recorded with William Ackerman, brought him enormous national recognition with the latter two attained the status of certified platinum in the United States. Since then he has further recorded seven piano albums, and has established himself to be one of the best performers of contemporary instrumental music.
 
He is also known to have taken up a remake project of the sixties band The Doors, and turned it into solo piano sessions called Night Divides the Day: The Music of The Doors. His exceptional creativity, musical vision and genius in transforming a music piece has made him popular among high end music lovers who simply close their eyes to be nurtured by the music’s tranquility in his live performances. It is only natural that George Winston tickets are much sought after each time the artist announces a show.
 
The first ever musical piece by George Winston was recorded for Takoma Records owned by Fahey, by John Fahey. The album was called Ballads and Blues, and due to perhaps bad publicity to none, it went by unnoticed, though it was much later re-released on Dancing Cat Records owned by Winston. By 1979, William Ackerman discovered Winston’s incredible talent and convinced him to record for his newly founded label Windham Hill Records. The pianist initially performed some heavily guitar-driven pieced he loved, after which he played a few of his nighttime music tunes on the piano, which formed the basis of his forthcoming album Autumn.  Some of his most famous soundtracks include 1994’s The Velveteen Rabbit, 1995’s Sadako and Thousand Paper Cranes, 2002’s Pumpkin Circle and 2003’s Bread Comes to Life.
 
George Winston was only sixteen when he saw the premier of A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles Schultz in 1965, which he found so captivating that he immediately ran out to buy its soundtrack. From then on he looked forward to every new Peanuts special as a source through which he could hear Guaraldi’s most recent music.  In fact his album Linus and Lucy, is thematically based on Guaraldi’s material that made for the Peanuts cartoons, which include a total of fifteen TV specials as well as a 1965 feature film. Winston has quoted that he loves Guaraldi’s chord progressions and his melodies, since the artist had a very personal method of doing his vocals.  
 
George Winston’s interest in music began with instrumentals performed in the jazz, pop, rock, and R&B styles, particularly those played by organists. In 1967, he came across The Doors whose music inspired him to begin playing the organ. By 1971, he moved to solo piano upon listening to recordings from the twenties and thirties, including those by the legendary stride pianist Thomas Waller. He then heard a recording of the latter’s contemporaries such as Donald Lambert, Teddy Wilson and Earl Hines. Winston has described many of his pieces as folk piano or rural folk piano, which is a sound he developed in 1971 as a way of complementing up-tempo stride piano tunes. These melodies are said to evoke the very essence of a season that reflects upon natural landscape.
 
Winston’s third trademark style, which he is currently working on, includes the New Orleans R&B piano that is mainly influenced by artists Jon Cleary, Dr. John, Henry Butler, James Brooker, and Professor Longhair. Winston is also known to play other instruments such as blues harmonica, solo acoustic guitar as well as the Hawaiian slack-key guitar, which he plays only in live performances. So get hold of some cheap George Winston tickets and enrich your experience with Winston’s other beautiful pieces that can only be heard live in concert.