Music Minute: The Okee Dokee Brothers - Winterland

GRAMMY® Award-winning The Okee Dokee Brothers embark on an experience of a lifetime as Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing celebrate the spirit of the winter season on their latest full-length studio album,Winterland. A voyage from autumn to spring, Winterland presents secular winter music the entire family can enjoy while cozying up around the fire. The duo will celebrate the album release with several family concerts this fall and winter.

I had a chance to review the CD. This is a great album for anyone in the northern United States. It celebrates winter as a season, as well as the symbolic ideas of storms, darkness and light, loss and life.  Produced by GRAMMY® Award-winning Dean Jones and showcasing a cast of guest musicians from the Hudson Valley in upstate New York (as well as Hawaii-based ukulele phenom, Paula Fuga), Winterland plants a seed for communities to band together and collectively support our beloved and endangered winters. Winter’s natural evolution is vital in keeping the earth healthy and hearty for generations to come. The Okee Dokee Brothers’ adventures advocate enjoying life in the great outdoors, and now withWinterland, the duo encourages fans to find their love of nature no matter the season. Climate Action Winterland is dedicated to our endangered winters, which are warming fast as a result of climate change. To help ensure that fans of The Okee Dokee Brothers can enjoy a lifetime of snowy winter exploration, they’re donating 10% of allWinterland CD sales and 10% of ticket sales from their hometown CD release concert at The O'Shaughnessy at St. Catherine's University (St. Paul, MN: Nov. 3) to Askov Finlayson’s Keep the North Cold initiative. Keep the North Cold supports leading-edge climate solutions in the North and across the country. To learn more about Askov Finlayson’s important mission, visit:askovfinlayson.com/mission. 10% of ticket sales from the Colorado CD release concert at Newman Center at Denver University (Nov. 4) will go to climate solutions at Protect Our Winters (POW).