Grammy Award Winner Will Ackerman and local award winning Pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins at The Basement

Nov. 19, 2010 - PRLog -- Performing at The Basement, Sydney on 21 November 2010 at 8.30pm
Multi award nominee and winner Fiona Joy Hawkins with her group 'Blue Dream' and guest artist, Grammy Award Winner Will Ackerman

Blue Dream is a group of musicians with a diverse range of styles and improvisational skills that brings to life the musical compositions of Fiona Joy Hawkins.

The group has an eclectic and musically diverse range of experience that includes World music, jazz rhythms and classical influences. Blue Dream spans genres, styles and has no pigeon hole. There is NO sounds like..

Fiona Joy Hawkins
Fiona has four award winning albums Portrait of a Waterfall, Angel Above My Piano, ICE Piano Slightly Chilled and Blue Dream. She has charted at #1 on the New Age Reporter International Radio Charts achieving the highest ranking in the history of the charts, been an ARIA Finalist, won the ZMR Album of the Year, Best Piano Album (twice) and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Best Dance/Dub/Club Album as well as winning the Music OZ Award for Best Classical/Jazz Artist in 2008. She has had over 37 nominations in Indie Artist Awards across 9 countries.

Fionas recent album Blue Dream was produced by Grammy winner Will Ackerman (Founder of Windham Hill) and has been released on the ABC label. She is the first Independent Australian artist to release a 5.1 multichannel super audio CD and will be recording a new CD for early 2011 to be recorded on a Stuart and Sons piano in Newcastle.

BLUE DREAM began as the most ambitious project of my entire career and resulted in one of the most remarkablecollaborations this genre has ever known. Blue Dream isuniqueand Im as proud of it as anything Ive ever worked on inmy 35 year career of Grammy Awards and gold/ platinum records...Will Ackerman (Founder Windham Hill Records) Windham County, Vermont 2008

The mood on BLUE DREAM ranges from vibrant to sensual to haunting Hawkins stellar musical vision on this project is worthy of great praise. She wowed us with her 2007 release ICE Piano Slightly Chilled, and with BLUE DREAM Fiona Joy Hawkins enters the realm of masterful...Sandy Shore. Smoothjazzfm.com

Fiona Joy Hawkins is internationally regarded as one of the finest artists on the New Age/Ambient Music scene. Blue Dream (the album) represents the very best of this music genre and follows in the great tradition of artists such as George Winston. This beautifully crafted album has already been hailed in the US as a work of pure genius.......ABC Music


Will Ackerman has performed at The Imperial Palace in Tokyo, The Kremlin, The Montreux Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, Red Rocks, Ravinia and Wolf Trap. Will is the founder of Windham Hill Records, the producer of artists George Winston, Michael Hedges, Liz Story and Alex de Grassi and has received numerous Platinum and Gold Record awards. He has been profiled in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone and People Magazine.

Wills latest recording, RETURNING, won a Grammy Award in 2005.

. Ackermans pieces have that timeless introspection that has made his music so enduring. BILLBOARD


Band Members
Fiona Joy Hawkins. Piano, Composition, Vocals
Rebecca Daniel. Violin, Vocals, Arrangement
Andy Busuttil Percussion, Wind Instruments, Vocals
Dave Ellis Double Bass
John Napier Cello

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