Winter usually proves to be the time of year that the superstars of popular music hunker down in their California bunkers, eating horded steaks and sleeping snugly on beds made of $20 bills. It's also the time of year that the working Joes of the music scene make their way south - if your annual income is inversely proportional to your musical workload, you might as well look at homelessness as a benefit. Plus, not having health care, it's easier to handle the flu while in Palm Springs. What that leaves us for the winter concert season in the snowy Pacific Northwest is an odd assortment of drunken sun-dodgers, punk rockers, comics and bands launching concert series. This week is the perfect example. The Esoterics presents their first concert in a series of three "choral ecologies" that feature music about three components of the Earth's biosphere: the ocean, the forest and the atmosphere. In OCEANA, The Esoterics bring to the concert stage four modern works whose texts are narratives of our relationship with the most abundant natural resource on our planet.

OCEANA, 3 p.m., St John's Episcopal Church, 114 20th St. SE, Olympia, free will offering, 360.352.8527