FAIRHOPE, Ala. — A concert featuring musician and songwriter Jim Scott, with fellow musician James Durst, will be held at the Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 13. The public is invited to attend. A contribution of $7 to $15 is recommended.

Scott, composer/singer and former guitarist with the Paul Winter Consort, will join forces with world traveling folk artist Durst for a festive participatory concert.

Prolific composers in their own right, these musicians have also gathered a repertoire of music from around the world that celebrates peace, our environment and a world community.

Scott and Durst will turn the audience into a choir singing in styles that run from classical to jazz to world folk music. With anthems from icons such as Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to world music of varied cultures to songs of other folk composers and many of their own, these musicians make a great demonstration of contemporary music of the greater movement for social change.

Their joyful music will bring optimism for the New Year and some good humor as well.

Co-composer of the “Missa Gaia/Earth Mass,” Scott has recorded a number of CDs of original music and published a growing line of choral works. He helped create the “Green Sanctuary” program to encourage churches to become more sustainable, and he has gathered and written the “Earth and Spirit Songbook,” a collection of 110 songs of Earth and peace.

For 40 years Durst has been performing for audiences in 45 countries and 49 American states. He has composed and collected songs in more that two dozen languages, reflecting a global perspective and a sense of the interconnectedness of all of life.

Durst has been the central figure in the “Work o’ the Weavers,” a quartet he created to celebrate the musical legacy of Pete Seeger and The Weavers. Some of the songs of The Weavers and Pete Seeger will be performed in the concert.

More information on the two singers can be found at www.jimscottmusic.com and at www.jamesdurst.com.

The Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship is located at 1150 Fairhope Ave., across the street from the Baldwin County Satellite Courthouse.

For more information, contact the Fellowship at fairhopeunitarian@att.net.