Musical Connections

Life On A Star Family Conference II

Saturday, August 21 to Saturday, August 28

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Please join us for a week of exploration and workshops on making personal and spiritual connections through music. While connecting, we’ll have some fun and relaxation.

Theme Speaker: Jim Scott will lead our week on Star and, along with others, help us make personal and spiritual connections through music. An exciting acoustic guitarist, singer, and composer of powerful music that furthers the ideals of ecology, justice, and peace, Jim makes an impact on hearts and minds across the world.
He is one of the rare musicians who have transcended stylistic boundaries, recording or sharing the stage with luminaries from the jazz, classical and folk music worlds in venues from Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival to a concert at the end of the Great Peace March with folk legends Pete Seeger and Peter Yarrow.
In his years as guitarist for the Paul Winter Consort, Jim led thousands in the song “Common Ground” and his own eco-anthem, “A Song For The Earth.” He was co-composer of the Consort’s monumental choral work, “Missa Gaia/Earth Mass,” and recorded “A Concert for the Earth” in the Great Hall of the United Nations.
Lately, Jim has devoted more time to composing and arranging. He regularly performs and offers workshops for young people in elementary schools and libraries. He has long been active in the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Church. and has visited over 300 UU churches across the country, leading services, presenting concerts, and offering workshops. Three of Jim’s songs are included in the new Unitarian Universalist Hymnbook, and “Gather The Spirit” has become a favorite across the denomination. Jim has served on the board of the UU Musicians Network and was Co-Chair of the ecological/spiritual activist group the UU “Seventh Principle Project.”
To learn more about Jim Scott, check out www.jimscottmusic.com.

Minister of the Week: Rev. Liz Lerner Maclay is a lifelong UU with masters degrees in divinity and theology from Harvard University. She is currently the minister at The Unitarian Universalist Church in Silver Spring MD.

Registrar; Michele Lauer Bader, Life On A Star Registrar, 649 Park Ave Huntington NY 11743, email hidden; JavaScript is required

Registration; $90 per adult, $70 per child.

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Adult Rates (18+)

Triple

Double

Single

Motel
Double

Motel
Single

7-Night Conferences

$710

$754

$972

$848

$1343

Questions about rates? Contact the conference registrar.

Youth Rates

Under 6

6-11 Yrs

12-17 Yrs

7-Night Youth

$0

$452

$600

Questions about rates? Contact the conference registrar.

Scolarships; Partial scholarships are available. You must be registered for consideration. Forms, in Blue Book or at lifeonastar.org , due to registrar by April 15, 2010.


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