WINDHAM HILL RECORD'S
A WINTER'S SOLSTICE
The Complete Windham Hill Winter's Solstice and Winter Holiday Collection Archive Online
Kickstarter Campaign for New 2026 Winter Solstice Celebration​
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The final Windham Hill Winter Solstice Release was in 2005. Over 20 years later, Dawn Atkinson, Bob Duskis, and Will Ackerman have teamed up to create a reunion album featuring, one again, many of the the Windham Hill artists we know and love. The team is funding the album with presales and a handful of other exciting rewards via Kickstarter.
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Click Here to find more information and support the campaign! ​
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For more information on the key producers behind this magnificent project, check out the History page on our website, or head over to Will Ackerman's Facebook Page, where he is personally providing updates on the campaign.
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And, for those who haven't joined, we also recommend joining the Windham Hill Lovers Facebook Group. It is a fantastic community of Windham Hill fans, artists, musicians, producers and other supporters. Will and Bob will provide additional updates on the campaign and production of the album there as well!
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Welcome to A Winter's Solstice
In the fall of 2015 I realized there was no single resource that cataloged all of the Winter's Solstice and related Windham Hill Holiday records. I did some research and found that, during Windham Hill's 20-year history of releasing Winter Holiday-based records, they created a total of 26. This website is dedicated to cataloging, reviewing, and offering opportunities for purchasing them.
The video to the left is the one single, officially published music video in the Winter's Solstice catalog, the opening track from Windham Hill's Winter's Solstice IV: Carol of the Bells (arranged and produced by Phil Aaberg and Dawn Atkinson).
I designed this website to catalog Windham Hill's Holiday collection pre- and post-BMG ownership. In order to qualify, the records must have had at least one or two original songs recorded for that record (some records, such as Winter's Songs and Guitars and Other Stringed Things only featured rehashed music from previous albums and therefore are not included). That said, I realize I could be missing one or more records, please contact me if you believe this to be the case.
All of the music featured here is under its respective copyright by the artists who created it and Sony Music Entertainment, Windham Hill's parent company. All respects to the ownership of the albums, artwork and music are credited on this website.
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Any questions or comments? Please feel free to contact the editors at the bottom of the History page.