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WILL ACKERMAN, founder of Windham Hill Records, presents THE GATHERING CONCERT
THE GATHERING CONCERTS are an evolution from the legendary work of WILL ACKERMAN, founder of Windham Hill Records, Grammy winner, and recipient of 27 GOLD and PLATINUM RECORDS. Producing, again, instrumental artists of remarkable talent, he created compilation CDs, THE GATHERING & THE GATHERING II, (THE GATHERING III will be released soon). The first CD won the coveted Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album in 2012, with the highest airplay rating of any record in the history of that format, and volume II went to #1 on the ZMR radio charts. In 2013, Will was honored with a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD at the ZMR Music Awards.
This GATHERING CONCERT offers a unique evening, bringing together FIVE musicians produced by Will Ackerman who rarely get the chance to perform together. The concert features
BARBARA HIGBIE, Grammy-nominated, Bammy award winning composer, pianist, fiddler, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, has, in addition to her 5 solo releases, performed on more than 100 albums, including one with Carlos Santana and two with Teresa Trull. A versatile force of nature, Higbie has performed with everyone from Bonnie Raitt to the Kronos Quartet, to Rob Wasserman.
Higbie's first work with Will Ackerman, a 1982 Windham Hill Records recording, "Tideline", with violinist Darol Anger, became an instant classic. One of her pieces from "Tideline", "True Story", was downloaded on Pandora in 2014 more than 850,000 times. In 1984, when Higbie cofounded with Darol Anger the acoustic super group, MONTREUX, and recorded " Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival" for Windham Hill Records, with Anger, Mike Marshall and Andy Narrell, it became a landmark genre-defining album. Her composition "To Be" became Montreux's radio/VH-1 hit. She toured worldwide with Montreux until 1990 when she left to pursue her solo career.
In 2011, Higbie was the first ever Artist In Residence at the prestigious west coast Jazz Club, Yoshi's, where she created two new bands, roots music's, HILLS to HOLLERS with icons Laurie Lewis and Linda Tillery, and the exotic CELLO HEAVEN with cellists Joan Jeanreneau of Kronos Quartet fame and new age star, Jami Sieber. Higbie's 5 solo CDs, "Signs of Life", "I Surrender", "Variations on a Happy Ending", "Alive in Berkeley", and last year's "Scenes from Life" have won her critical acclaim and a large, devoted nationwide following. In the words of the Los Angeles Times, Barbara is a "jolt of bright sunlight and everyone in the audience feels her warmth."
DAVID CULLEN, GRAMMY AWARD winner for Best Pop Instrumental Recording, has recorded 12 CDs and performed with Will Ackerman, Samite of Uganda, Michael Manring, Victor Wooten, The Jaco Big Band and the Philly Pops Orchestra. Cullen was a featured soloist at the New York Guitar Festival, has performed throughout North America for Classical Guitar Societies, Jazz Festivals and Performing Arts Series, and has been featured on NPR stations across the country. He is featured on the Windham Hill Guitar Sampler and other Windham Hill Compilation CDs.
He has released 2 books through Warner Brothers Publications, "Jazz, Classical and Beyond", and "Grateful Guitar". His performance DVD, "Jazz, Classical and Beyond", features multi-camera angles and lessons. Cullen currently is an Artist in Residence at Elizabethtown College. He teaches Jazz and Classical Guitar at Kutztown University and West Chester University. He graduated from the Hartt School of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Classical Guitar Performance. New York Times Billboard & Soundboard Guitar Player have lauded Cullen for his "Ferocious Fingerstyle" and "Folk, Jazz, Blues Superstructures".
JILL HALEY, oboist, pianist, and composer, won BEST PIANO ALBUM with INSTRUMENTATION at the Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) Awards in 2014 for her album "Mesa Verde Soundscapes", which was recorded at Will Ackerman's Imaginary Roads Studio with engineer Tom Eaton. This was the third recording Haley has released about the National Parks in the United States. Her 2012 release, "Zion and Bryce Canyon Soundscapes," was rated #1 for the MOST WORLDWIDE AIRPLAY in 2012 by ZMR, and nominated for BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM by ZMR. In 2010, after visiting Glacier National Park, Jill wrote and recorded the first of this trio of music CDs about inspiring landscapes. "Glacier Soundscapes", received international airplay on radio and other music services. Jill was selected to be an Artist in Residence at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado in 2013. Guitarist, David Cullen, and Jill were invited back to Mesa Verde in 2014 to perform the 14 pieces on "Mesa Verde Soundscapes" that she wrote while living in the park.
Jill continues to work with Will Ackerman as a supporting artist on English horn in his concerts as well as adding her musical voice to many other projects he produces at Imaginary Roads Studio. She created and performed English horn lines on Laura Sullivan's "Loves River" which won a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best New Age Recording. Jill has been involved with ONE ALTERNATIVE, a quartet whose instrumentation is bass, drums, guitar and oboe. The group has released 7 recordings and has performed throughout the country. ONE ALTERNATIVE has been a featured live guest on the nationally syndicated radio show, ECHOES, many times. She has just completed another Artist in Residency at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. She plans to record her next CD, "National Park Soundscapes," in time to perform the music for the centennial celebration of the formation of the National Park Service in 2016.
DAVID LINDSAY, guitarist, returns actively to the music scene with a new instrumental album, "Nightbound", produced by Will Ackerman at his Imaginary Road Studios in Vermont with co-producer and engineer Tom Eaton. A year ago, after David contacted Will and submitted his music, Will wrote back, saying, "some of the best writing and playing I've heard in years."
Spanning 1985 to the year 2000, David recorded and performed in concert, live radio, and television in Canada. For the past fifteen years, David practiced law, and studied lute, culminating in master classes with Robert Barto and the late Pat O'Brien, whose generosity of spirit inspired David to begin a journey back to the guitar.
"Nightbound" features mostly new works that were written spontaneously during the recording process. The album also features inspired contributions from Eugene Friesen, six time Grammy winning cellist with the Paul Winter Consort; Tony Levin, bassist with John Lennon, Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel; Charlie Bisharat, violinist with Alanis Morissette, Elton John and Beck; Jeff Haynes, percussionist with Pat Metheny; Michael Manring on Zon Bass, and Will Ackerman, guitar. Other musical contributors include Paul Kochanski, NS Bass, and vocals by Noah Wilding. "Nightbound" will be released in November of this year.
David`s music is a synthesis of his background in classical guitar and lute studies, and in celebration and honor of the human spirit.
TOM EATON, multi-instrumentalist is best known as an AWARD WINNING RECORDING ENGINEER AND PRODUCER, who currently spends much of his life working alongside Will Ackerman at Will's Imaginary Road Studio in Vermont. Since 1993 Tom has also operated his own commercial studio in Newburyport, MA, where he has produced, engineered and played on more than a hundred recordings for a national and international clientele. Tom frequently plays bass, keyboards, piano and percussion on projects, and has released one record of piano based material, co-written with cellist Kristen Miller, and a compilation album drawn from twenty five years of electronic music composition. A new album of keyboard and piano originals is in the works for 2015.
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LocationCentre Congregational Church (View)
193 Main St.
Brattleboro, VT 05301
United States
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